Re: [ePiX-users] UTF8 or cyrilic support

[Andrew D. Hwang]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, ??????? ??????? wrote:

> What about UTF8 support
> I need cyrilic support in labels and formulas
Hi Aleksandr,

My earlier reply was less clear than it should have been, and (as Maik 
Beckmann points out) didn't exactly answer your question. There's a patch 
file to augment elaps, which should allow you to compile Cyrillic. Please 
download the file

  http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix-1.2.2b.patch.tar.bz2

and put it into your epix source directory. To apply the changes, use 
these commands:

bzcat epix-1.2.2b.patch.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -

for file in *.patch; do patch < $file; done

rm -f epix elaps flix

make

make install

---
If everything works, it's safe to delete the patch and tar files.

The patched elaps script has a "--preamble" option allowing the contents 
of a named file to be added to the LaTeX preamble. The effect is similar 
to the "-p" option I mentioned earlier, but can handle LaTeX package 
options (and many other things).

For example, you might create a LaTeX style file named "cyrillic.sty":

---(snip)---
%% cyrillic.sty
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% any other code you normally use for Cyrillic: font definitions, etc.
---(snip)---

Save "cyrillic.sty" in your project directory.

To create figures, put the appropriate LaTeX code into ePiX labels, and 
compile your input file like this:

elaps --preamble cyrillic.sty <input file>

Please post if you have problems.

--
Andy

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