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Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)
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Vic Norton |
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Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac) |
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:28:32 -0500 |
xfig and transfig can both be ported to a Mac from darwinports:
vic$ port search xfig
xfig graphics/xfig 3.2.4
Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
vic$ port search transfig
transfig print/transfig 3.2.4
Tools to convert Xfig's .fig files
I haven't done it, but the process should be pretty straightforward.
Regards,
Vic
At 1:24 PM -0600 2/3/05, Quentin Spencer wrote:
Henry F. Mollet wrote:
LaTeX - A document preparation system
My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would it
take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for submission to
scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can take
the place of MSWord and I won't need it at all?
Definitely. I have never used Word for submitting to journals. For
an example of what is possible, you can look at my PhD dissertation,
which was completely generated using LaTeX:
http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd378.pdf
All simulations were done in octave, and all plots were generated
using octave/gnuplot. In order to put math expressions in the plot,
I usually output my plots to xfig format (see the gnuplot
documentation for more), and then use xfig and transfig (this
process is automated using makefiles) to generate eps files (other
ways of doing this have been covered recently on this list). I don't
know whether xfig and transfig are readily available for Mac without
building it yourself (which apparently is not necessarily
straightforward).
In my experience, LaTeX has a bit of a steep learning curve, but GUI
interfaces like LyX now exist which make the process more like a
word processor (but still not exactly the same). However, no other
program does mathematical typesetting as well as LaTeX (in addition
to the fact that you pointed out that MS still doesn't understand
anybody's vector graphics formats other than their own). When I
review papers by other authors, I can instantly tell which authors
used LaTeX and which used Word from the ugly looking equations.
-Quentin
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