Comments on: LaTeX and XFig Troubles

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:38:29 +0000

Problem solved. Martin pointed out that I was using draft mode (in order to use the fixme package) and that mode inhibits figures. I have now moved the draft mode to only apply to the fixme package.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:21:26 +0000

Well… I’ve never seen that particular method mentioned before, so it’s not universally recognized. What should be universally recognized is a picture environment using eepic macros :-)

As I remember it, then you tell Xfig that the text is “special” which means that it leaves stuff like $a_x^2$ alone — the markup survives to the LaTeX step and is thus translated into nice math (it could have espaced $ as \textdollor, etc…). Or something along those lines… I haven’t used Xfig in many, many years.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:42:30 +0000

Thank you for your answers.
But I would like to make the pstex_t/pstex method works since it seems so popular. What will happen with my math mode LaTeX text snippets if I export to eepics? I suppose I could try again when I get in tomorrow. (I am tired now, someone kept me up late yesterday with move and loads of carbs)
\\centerline seems to work fine for centering, I got the code from the manual to the llncs.sty style I use (it\’s the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science style).
I guess the crux is the following: Why \\includegraphics\’ing my pstex file not work?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:38:18 +0000

I agree that exporting using eepic macros is a first step to getting a better picture (TeX can not draw lines of arbitrary slopes). When I export a picture like that I get a file which starts a picture environment. Simply including the file using \input should work (possible first when you’ve converted the stuff to PostScript). If you want the picture centered, then use the \centering command — I haven’t heard about \centerline before, maybe it’s the same?

By: Christian Schmidt

Christian Schmidt — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:10:01 +0000

I only have vague memories about Latex, but I did make xfig drawings with Latex fonts when I was writing my theses four years ago. Looking in the Makefile that generated the report, I can see that I converted my xfig drawings to eepic format using a command line tool, “fig2dev -L eepic -s10 foo.eepic”. The eepic files contain Latex codes. I then included these in Latex using \input{foo.eepic}.

Drop me a line, if you want the source files.