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["David E. Miller" <address@hidden>]

Inserting or linking existing EPS files either inline, left , right,  
centered or "framed", is easy using TeXmacs. Use Insert image -> Big 
(Small) figure, Then Insert -> Image - Insert (Limk) image from the 
menu. You can also go straight to  Image - Insert (Limk) image menu item 
and this place the image at the left margin. Use Format -> Paragraph -> 
Left|zRight|Center directly with the image in focus.

How you get those EPS files in the first place is another matter 
altogether. If you are using any plugin session (Python, Maxima, Octave, 
gnuplot, etc) and execute a plotting statement that interfaces to 
gnuplot for example with a terminal type set that outputs the graph to a 
window, the graph window should pop up with the graph as though you were 
using gnuplot itself. I presume the same occurs for other plotting 
backends. However, you still must get the plot image to disk as a file 
regardless of the graph format in order to insert it into TeXmacs per 
the above -- unless you use that clever Python plugin function which is 
limited to poking the the image into the Python session space. There is 
no cutting and pasting directly from the plot windows that I have found. 
However, if you use the Python session plugin function to insert the 
file into the session I presume you could cut/copy and paste it from 
there to another location in the TeXmacs document. I have not tried this 
myself. I try, in general, to link graphics instead of inserting.

Once you see that the graph meets your needs by looking at the popup 
window, then you can change the output terminal to  epscairo for example 
and then save it to file using the info of my paper, or pdfcairo if 
there is any transparency effects in which case the workflow of the 
paper becomes a requirement. I presume other plotting packages such as 
Matplotlib, etc work in a similar way.

TeXmacs is not a graphical object interface and worksheet environment 
like MathCad, but it is a much better general technical document tool in 
many ways.

David


On 5/16/2013 11:48 PM, Bill Eaton wrote:
> Many thanks for the article. Lots of good stuff in there.
>
> Like I said before my motivation is towards a MathCAD replacement. Or 
> a MathCAD replacement + technical reports. I like to have live plots 
> so I can tweak them until I get them right.
>
> I've already figured out how to get inline plots working  with the 
> Python plugin. And it shouldn't be to hard to get inline plots working 
> with Octave. I hope to post my findings soon to the newsgroup.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Bill Eaton
>
> On 05/16/2013 07:37 PM, David E. Miller wrote:
> > Bill:
> >
> > Attached is the article we discussed.
> >
> > Note: I optimized the PDF file exported from TeXmacs using Abobe 
> > Acrobat Pro to reduce the file size from 425 KB to 270 KB.
> >
> > David Miller