I updated my article I want my figure here
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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I updated my article I want my figure here
) outside a contained environment . The method explained before is not as good as the one I recommend now: use the package capt-of or captdef
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
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This is a question that makes me very often. And the answer is long, I decided to write here once and for all. The question may appear in various forms, being one of the most frequent
all printer drivers windows that I could prove (even the "official" Adobe) generate EPS bad that needs to be retouched later. I describe the process.
is a rectangle that indicates which part of the page is what actually contains the drawing. LaTeX this information is important because it will calculate the space occupied by the figure according to
BoundingBox. But does Windows incorrectly
- BoundingBox equal to the entire page, so you need an extra step to fix it. Arranging
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BoundingBox. For this step you need Ghostview application, but if you're trying to insert LaTeX EPS figures probably already have it right?. Enough to open with ghostview
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- BoundingBox. To verify you can display it in ghostview, enabling the "Show Bounding Box", you draw a dotted rectangle around the BoundingBox . If this rectangle includes adjusting your figure, everything is perfect. You can include this EPS in a LaTeX document. If you are going to process it with pdflatex, you must convert it to PDF, which can also be done from ghostview
Other considerations. If you try to convert the chart was created with Excel, additional problems may arise due to the Excel application itself, because if you select a graphic in this application and sent to print, the result is often wrong (without drawing areas, areas black ...), so its conversion to PS will also be incorrect. The only solution I know thisbug is to copy the chart from Excel and paste it into another application (Word, for example) from which you can print and smoothly.On the other hand, there is a program (shareware) calledwmf2epsthat it helps if you have to do lots of graphics. You've proven that the previous method of printing a file, rename a result, open it in ghostview - and resave it as EPS, can be tedious. Wmf2eps
program simplifies the process by allowing you to select the chart in your application, copy and paste it in the programwmf2eps . Once stuck there, pressing a button will be converted to EPS. Actually this program is limited to print the chart to a PS printer (which therefore you must have installed anyway), and then fix the BoundingBox .I hope this information is helpful to someone. If you find any problem in trying to follow these steps or have questions, leave a comment on this blog.
Thursday, October 30, 2003
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On the website of the TeX Users Group Indian
there are many interesting things. Including a set of tutorials written by its specialized equipment. The LaTeX tutorial can be downloaded as a whole "screen presentations, or in a single PDF document
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003
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This is a fairly common question among the rookies. How I can make a figure out in the text exactly where I want, not where you want to LaTeX? The answer most obvious is to not put the figure in an environment
figure, since it is the environment who tells LaTeX that has permission to put it wherever you want. Yes, \\ includegraphics can be used without being in a figure , as the environment
anywhere text, not necessarily in an environment figure. This may be used capt-of package or packaging captdef . Both provide similar functionality, and basically use the same mechanism, so you can choose the one you like. Using capt-of , you add the figure caption writing \\ captionof {figure} {text} figure caption, while using captdef the command to use would be \\ figcaption {text} figure caption. Both packages are flexible and allow you to add captions to tables or other floats
that you have defined yourself using the float package . You can use a tabular environment to ensure that the figure and the "false foot" go together.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
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Michael Wedman has prepared a document that collects
the currently existing solutions to generate on-screen presentations using LaTeX. It covers not only the presentation in PDF, but also in HTML and other formats. For each solution, an example, pros and cons.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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In a recent message on the list Laura mentioned sptex mdwtools package, which I had already thrown out long ago, but I had completely forgotten, so it has been a happy rediscovery. This package is actually a set of them. Some with utility rather dark (except for TeXpertos), others with an undoubted utility. Here's the list:
at This package allows you to define your own commands, rather than starting by \\ , starting with @ . The usefulness of this oddity becomes clear when we define a named command very short, to serve as a shorthand for one with a name larger. Then you realize that most of the commands whose name consists of a pair of letters already exists (either as primitive TeX command or as latex). Or if not, there remains the question of whether there is a package that we will use later. For example, we often \\ longrightarrow and would like to abbreviate as \\ lra Will there because this command in LaTeX? Using the package at our command ). No doubt you can find interesting applications.
- cmtt . This package fixes a problem that can occur when using modern computer teletype types
(\\ texttt {...}) because apparently this source coding is standard and some characters may leave changed.doafter. This is one of those utilities that are meaningful only for advanced programmers TeX. I do not understand what it is :-)footnote. Here reimplements command \\ footnoteto behave better than what comes with latex. In particular, the new\\ footnotesupports verbatim text, and can be used in places where the original command was not possible (as in
parboxes)mdwlist. This is one of those little gems. Sets the list type environments (itemize,description ,...) to be more compact. It also offers several solutions to the problem that, in the environment - description to define the term is too long (in my opinion, the description generated by LaTeX is rather ugly.) mdwmath
. This minipaquetitoimplements a variant of \\ sqrt - omits horizontal line above the operation. It also provides some mathematical symbols. mdwtab
- is a complete reimplementation new environments and
tabular array, with many interesting options. Worth reading carefully the documentation.sverb code can list "verbatim", and read from a file. It also provides a demo environment - showing LaTeX code with the result, ideal for writing manuals for LaTeX syntax
offers a set of macros to "draw" type BNF grammar diagrams. This type of diagrams abound in the documents of the suitemdwtools
Sunday, October 5, 2003
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MetaPost has the ability to include labels (text) as part of the drawing. To order this gives the label which receives as first parameter to display text, and as second parameter the coordinates of the point where it should appear. The first parameter (the text) can be of two types:
A picture is the result of processing the directives BTEX / Etex . These policies cause the text between them is processed externally by TeX, and the result of that processing is inserted back into the metapost figure in the form of Etex / BTEX , but only words 'literal'. & concatenation character strings and ). However, the downside is that the string can not contain TeX commands. If the string is, for example "$ i $", the text displayed will be precisely that, not a - i
- in math mode. would be interesting to combine the best of both approaches, ie to dynamically generate a string , and is interpreted by TeX, so that the chain process "The value of $ i $ is" & decimal i & "."
obtain the text "The value of iis 3." (Assuming that the value of the variable) This is the problem independently, have raised two different authors, and the solutions they reached each are:LatexMP. This library is published in - MetaPost CTAN , not only solves the above problem, but also provides a method to achieve multicolor cloud patch without dvitomp
(see
my article on this topic.) It also comes with excellent documentation and usage examples. The package provides a wealth of configuration options.latex.mp . This MetaPost library is not published "officially" anywhere (except for this blog), but can be downloaded as part of the libraryMAKECIRC. Code is much simpler and compact than LatexMP, and the documentation is much less (included as comments in the code of the library). However, except for colored labels, it offers the same functionality as LatexMP. Latex.mp I think it may be more appropriate to be used as part of other libraries. For example, has been used in the library Schema for drawing electronic circuits, and library MAKECIRC
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
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Javier M. Mora has given me to know this interesting document: The TeX
ruler, a collection of graduates of interest rules for the typographer. Redesigned
Monday, September 29, 2003
Friday, September 26, 2003
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are appearing more and more pages devoted to this interesting graphics programming language, but are difficult to find, because their authors do not advertise or put the documents on CTAN. This time it's the turn of the
MetaPost: A very brief tutorial Urs Oswald. So hidden that not even link from your homepage . This "tutorial" is actually a collection of figures, increasingly complex, with their source and brief explanations. Not for beginners. In addition to the tutorial in the web of Urs Oswald is also an interesting Why Want A Universal Remote Not Wore A Emerson Tv
Do you have to limit the size of your paper to a fixed number of pages and spend a little? "Often printed proof of your work and it bothers wasting paper? The following techniques may help reduce some of the size of your document:
\\ usepackage {times, mathptmx} change the font of your document to Times, which is much more compact than the Computer Modern TeX used for default. ) Change the distance between the lines. Reduce by 95% percent will barely be noticeable, but you will save space. Even 90% is tolerable, since the lines do not come to "clash" with each other. You do this by putting \\ renewcommand {\\} {0.9} baselinestretch
- that in addition to the above tricks, comes with its own bibliographic style file Abbreviations used for the literature also leaves more compact. As if that were not enough, this package comes with a perl script that allows you to make the document fonts closer (With horizontal resizing and virtual sources), allowing you to gain a little more space.
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