Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)

[A Hodel]

I use LaTeX/octave as much as possible in lieu of word, etc.; when 
working with collaborations, unfortunately I sometimes have to work 
with Word for compatibility.  The latex2rtf converter is "ok" for that 
purpose (but not complete), but the rtf2latex converter appears to have 
been abandoned long ago.

I also use gnumeric instead of excel for a lot of work, since gnumeric 
can output tables in LaTeX form for "easy *(see footnote)" import.

For technical writing/reports: I think LaTeX can't be beat, and my 
graduate students enthusiastically agree.  The learning curve can be 
daunting: it took me 10- years to get a colleague to give LaTeX a try; 
now he asks why I didn't make him do it sooner.  (!)

The downside to LaTeX is that things like "track changes" with multiple 
authors is a bit more tricky.  The macros I've used for
that I'd be glad to share, but I think I've gone sufficiently far off 
of the "octave" topic of this list that I'll quit there.

Regards,

(*) "easy" in the context of LaTeX is somewhat relative.  It's not as 
simple as a "Cut" "paste" operation, but it's not much worse than that.

On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:06 PM, 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?
>
> Using Octave/Gnuplot/AquaTerm I can save as pdf or eps. Current MS 
> Word does
> not fully support PDFs and creates a bitmap, therefore print quality 
> is not
> adequate. If I insert the EPS into MS Word, I can print with good 
> quality
> but cannot see the eps on the screen because I don't have/don't know 
> how to
> make an EPS file with Tiff or PICT preview.
>
> So is LaTex the solution to my problem? I could also buy iWorks which
> supports PDF and therefore won't rasterize (make a bit map) of my PDF 
> files
> that were created with AquaTerm.
> Henry
>
>
> on 2/3/05 7:11 AM, Quentin Spencer at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Rodrigo Santos wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to copy a figure obtained using plot to an .eps format 
> > > so I
> > > can include it on latex file.
> > The easiest way to do this is using the "print" command in the
> > octave-forge package (http://octave.sf.net). It is very similar to the
> > print function in Matlab. Without this function, you can do something
> > like this:
> >
> > gset term postscript
> > gset output filename.eps
> > replot
> >
> > There are additional options for the first command that are in the
> > gnuplot documentation.
> >
> >
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