Bug#147628: tetex-src: graphics should be able to include combined postscript/LaTeX files
reassign 147628 tetex-base
thanks
Dear Arnaud,
are you the one who submitted a bug to the Debian Bugtracking System
over a year ago, against the tetex packages? It seems you used a
non-functional E-mail address, therefore our reply didn't reach you.
You wrote:
> I'm using intensively the combined postscript/LaTeX format of xfig and I
> like the options (scale, rotate, width,...) of graphics. Being able to write
> \includegraphics[width=3cm]{graph.pstex_t} is really much more convenient
> than having to write \resizebox{3cm}{!}{\input{graph.pstex_t}}.
> At first, I had written a crappy and rather long package using keyval to
> define a command \includepstex close to \includegraphics but the following
> "patch" seems to be much more efficient.
Back then, C.M.Conelly replied, I'm citing this below. You might also
find the figfrag script, or one of the other hits when you enter "xfig"
in the third search field at http://www.ctan.org/find.html.
CMC wrote:
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Arnaud,
AL> Could you include this patch (or something that enable the
AL> inclusion of .pstex_t files) in the graphics package (in
AL> the dvips driver by example) ?
Debian is not likely to make changes to core LaTeX packages unless
those changes are made upstream.
I suggest that you
1. Leave this wishlist bug open
2. Contact the maintainers of the graphics package -- the LaTeX
3 team -- by filing a bug report against LaTeX
3. If/when the change is made in LaTeX (next release is
scheduled for June, 2002), it will be added to a release of
teTeX, and will end up in Debian
4. We can close the bug
You should check the current LaTeX bug database to ensure that no
one else has already filed your bug (or a similar bug) by going to
<http://www.latex-project.org/bugs.html>, anc clicking on the
``LaTeX bugs database'' link in the ``Secondly'' item. (Sorry,
the actual URL is a bit unwieldy.) That page also explains the
bug-filing procedure in some detail, summarized below:
1. Run LaTeX on the file latexbug.tex, which you can find at
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latexbug.tex
on a Debian teTeX installation.
2. Once you've answered the questions and included your
``patch'', mail the file latexbug.msg to
<latex-bugs@latex-project.org>.
A second, perhaps easier, alternative, would be to create an
additional style that does what you want (perhaps by redefining
some things set by other files) that people can load in addition
to or instead of some of the other style files in the graphics
package. License that file with a license that conforms to Debian
Free-Software Guidelines, and upload it to the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network.
CMC
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How about these ideas?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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