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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:51:52PM -0400, Kevin Ellwood wrote:
> 
> I just started using texmacs amd I think it is great!  However, I have
> tried to read the help files and the tutorial and I can't seem to figure
> out how to scale an eps image that I include as a figure. The
> documentation says that you can do it.

First of all, sorry for the late reply.

I just answered that question in another mail, but I will restate the basics 
here:

Parameters 2 and 3 of the postscript element (which you can modify by
backspacing into an image) can be

  -- factors of the form "*2", "/3" or "*4/5"

  -- lengths like "3cm", "128px" or "0.8par"

If one of these two parameters is ommitted, the image is scaled with a
preserved aspect ratio. If both parameters are non-empty the image can
be scaled with an arbitrary aspect ratio.

Parameters 4 to 7 are length which specify how cropping most be done,
relative to the the bottom left corner of the image.

You can find more about lengths on the Wiki:

  http://alqua.com/tmresources/how%20to%20use%20length%20units

 
> By looking at the menus, it seems that "insert->special->resize object"
> has something to do with it but it doesn't seem to be working. 
> Ultimately, I would just like to scale the eps image by some fraction.


Then you should use something like:

  <postscript|figure.ps|/3|||||>

Resize object has nothing to do with this. It is used to change the
bounds of a typeset box. Is is used to typeset list items.

> Another question is related to bibtex and texmacs.  It seems the
> environment variable BIBINPUTS is ignore when generating the
> bibliography.  To this point, I have been copying my *.bib files into
> the directory where I am working with texmacs documents.   Is there a
> file in the .TeXmacs directory where I can set environment variables?

Dunno... can someone help?

> The last question is related to page size.  I have set the page size to
> "letter" but when I print preview with ghostscript the page size is A4. 
> I have looked into the *.tm file with a text editor and letter is being
> used as the page size.  I also looked at the postscript file generated
> by texmacs and the pagesize is set to A4.  Is there an additional page
> size configuration that I have to set for printing and can I set the
> default for texmacs to letter size?

You have to set the printer page size in the menu
"Edit->Preferences->Printer->Paper type". That menu will be moved in a
new "File->Page setup" menu.

Joris: maybe this setting should be ignored when printing to a file
(aka. exporting to PostScript). What do you think?

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