Because I'm Polish, I very offen face the problem of using "nonstandard" characters in Xfig figures (I hope that one day Xfig will support Unicode and then all Polish characters as well as other national characters will be standard...). Usually I use three methods: 1) Enter the text using the latex syntax (I use the babel package, and then enter ą as "a, ć as "c and so on). The text should have the "special" flag turned on. Next I export the file in pstex_t format, and include it into my LaTeX document. In the same way it is possible to enter very complex math formulas, however one problem exists: The bounding box is calculated by LaTeX before the interpretation of text, so if the "source text" of formula extends beyond the figure limits, the results may be very "interesting" :-). 2) The next method converts the figure into the EPS, using the special LaTeX wrapper, then corrects the bounding box with the "psfixbb" program (I attached the "fixltx2ps" script which performs all these operations). The resulting corrected EPS file may be included into the LaTeX documents. 3) Use the "psfrag" package. This method is more robust, but also more complex, because the information i splited between the xfig file and the latex file, which may cause problems if you are going to use the same figure in many places. Additionally there are some problems with font scaling and figure scalling. (More information may be found in documentation of the psfrag package: /usr/doc/texmf/latex/psfrag/pfgguide.ps (in my system)) Hope this helps a little Wojtek Zabolotny wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them > > in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t. > > i usually export from xfig into encapsulated PS and it fits into > > laTeX files perfectly (using graphics, graphix or epsfig). > But then I suppose you can't have the latex commands, for instance you > can't write $\alpha$ in xfig and get an alpha, or can you? > hmm... if i'd need greek letters, just set font to special > (greek) and start typing: > a -> \alpha > b -> \beta > etc > Also you can put latex text into the picture frame, but > that's a bit sexy...
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Description: The script for conversion ofXfig pictures with LaTeX instructions into EPS file