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  • From: Alessio Dessi <address@hidden>
  • To: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: HELP: figures with math writing
  • Date: 26 May 2003 18:18:46 +0200

Il lun, 2003-05-26 alle 10:38, Javier Arantegui ha scritto:
> On 26 May 2003 10:27:38 +0200
> Alessio Dessi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm writing my thesis and i need to put some math writing inside the
> > pictures made with xfig, I know that this is possible in latex and i
> > suppose it is possible also with texmacs (a least i hope so), but I
> > can't figure out how to do that
>
>
> In Xfig you should put all your formulas between dollar signs. Then, follow
> these instructions:
>

thanks :-)

great


thanks also the the next :-)

> -----
>
> From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?
> Date: 24 Mar 2003 07:30:04 -0800
>
> I've been using it to do my math homework. I create a graph with
> gnuplot, and «set terminal fig», «set output "graph.fig"». I label all
> of the lines with labels surrounded by dollar signs, then open the fig
> file with xfig, and use the "edit" tool to set the "special flag" on
> them. (I find it annoying that gnuplot doesn't just do that for me.)
>
> The trick is to 1) use dollar signs to get LaTeX math mode, 2) set the
> "special flag".
>
> Then, I just run "fig2ps graph.fig graph.eps", and include the .eps in
> my Texmacs document.
>
> -----
>
> > just a question ... is available some where the description of the
> > parameter of the texmacs tag? i mean for instance the postscript figure
> > have severl space where i can write after enter in edit mode in the
> > figure, i see that the first and the second place controlthe size of the
> > picture ... but what about the others place ?
>
> You can find the answer here:
>
> -----
>
> From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:03:26 +0200
>
> To resize an image, you have to edit the parameters of the image node.
>
> First, place the caret just after the image. The left foot of the
> editor window should read "postscript image".
>
> Then press backspace. That will _deactivate_ the image allowing you to
> access its internal values.
>
> The parameters of a POSTSCRIPT node (i.e. an image are)
>
> 1. file name, if the image is linked, or image raw data if
> the image is included;
>
> 2. width;
>
> 3. height
>
> 4. left cropping;
>
> 5. bottom cropping;
>
> 6. width copping;
>
> 7. height cropping
>
>
> File name or raw image data.
> ----------------------------
>
> Generally, you will not want to change the file name. But there is an
> important case where that can be useful: if you link an image inside
> an unnamed document (that is document you do not have already saved),
> an absolute file name will be used. So if you later rename or move the
> linked image file, the image will no longer be displayed by TeXmacs.
>
> In this scenario, you may want to edit the image file name to use a
> relative file name instead. Such file names are intepreted relative to
> the directory containing the document. Relative file names are used
> automatically when linking an image from a named document.
>
> When an image is included, you will not want to edit the raw data
> (unless you can read and write binary data or PostScript code in the
> text).
>
>
> Width and height
> ----------------
>
> The width and height of an image can be specified using any length
> unit or a special "zoom factor" syntax. If either one is ommited (left
> empty), the other dimension is inferred by preserving the aspect ratio
> of the image. If none is specified, TeXmacs will try to guess the
> intended size of the image from the EPS headers (and will generally
> get it wrong).
>
> For more informatio about lengh units see chapter [?].
>
> You can find some information on the wiki too:
>
> http://www.alqua.com/tmresources/how%20to%20use%20length%20units
> http://www.alqua.com/tmresources/length%20units
>
> One especially useful length unit here, at least when dealing with
> scalable graphics, is the "par" unit. Setting the image width to
> ".7par" will make your image occupy 70% of the paragraph width.
>
> The "zoom factor" syntax allows to specify a rational multiplicator to
> the EPS specified size of the image. It is best described by examples:
>
> *3 -- multiply <dimension> by 3;
>
> /2 -- divide <dimension> by 2;
>
> *3/2 -- multiply dimension by 1.5;
>
> *1.5 -- same as above.
>
>
> Cropping
> --------
>
> In some situations, you may want texmacs to perform some cropping over
> an image. For example, that may be necessary if you want to remove
> some borders around an PostScript file you cannot easily edit.
>
> In the following picture, the box in dashed lines represent the
> complete image, and the smaller box in filled lines represent the
> displayed cropped image.
>
> + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> left cropping |
> |-------------------->
> . |
> | width cropping .
> -----------------------------> |
> | . .
> . . |
> | ^.. +--------+
> | | | |
> | ^................ +--------+
> | | |
> | | bottom | height
> | cropping | cropping |
> | | |
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
>
> The cropping values must be absolute length units. They are applied on
> the image before scaling, so changing the displayed width or height of
> the image will not affect cropping.
>
>
> Examples
> --------
>
> <postscript|/usr/share/pixmaps/texmacs.xpm||||||>
>
> Should display the texmacs icon at intrinsic size if texmacs were
> correctly installed.
>
> <postscript|chart.eps||||||>
>
> Display the chart.eps file located in the same directory as the
> document.
>
> <postscript|chart.eps|.7par|||||>
>
> Scale it to take 70% of the paragraph width.
>
> <poscript|chart.eps||.5pag||||>
>
> Scale to take 50% of the page height.
>
> <postscript|chart.eps|*4|||||>
> <postscript|chart.eps||*4||||>
> <postscript|chart.eps|*16/4|||||>
>
> Magnify by a factor 4.
>
> <postscript|chart.eps|/2|||||>
> <postscript|chart.eps|*.5|||||>
> <postscript|chart.eps||/2||||>
> <postscript|chart.eps|*2/4|||||>
>
> Shrink by a factor 2.
>
> <postscipt|archimedes.eps|*22/7||2cm|2cm|3cm|3cm>
>
> Crop out a square image of 1cm on the side locate 2cm from the
> lower left border and magnify it by approximately pi.
>
> -----
>
>




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