* Including xfig graphics
@ 2011-01-06 12:21 Florian Unglaub
2011-01-07 7:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Florian Unglaub @ 2011-01-06 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi there,
I'm pretty new to ConTeXt and stumbled upon a problem when trying to use
Xfig:
I'm trying to create figures with xfig and including them in my ConTeXt
document. I would export them as PDF, but unfortunately I have TeX math
inside the figure and I'd like to have native fonts. I used to use a
combinded LaTeX/PDF export in the past with LaTeX.
Is there any practical solution to this?
Regards, Florian.
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* Re: Including xfig graphics
2011-01-06 12:21 Including xfig graphics Florian Unglaub
@ 2011-01-07 7:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-01-07 9:07 ` Alan BRASLAU
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2011-01-07 7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 01/06/2011 01:21 PM, Florian Unglaub wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm pretty new to ConTeXt and stumbled upon a problem when trying to use
> Xfig:
>
> I'm trying to create figures with xfig and including them in my ConTeXt
> document. I would export them as PDF, but unfortunately I have TeX math
> inside the figure and I'd like to have native fonts. I used to use a
> combinded LaTeX/PDF export in the past with LaTeX.
>
> Is there any practical solution to this?
It's been ages since I last used xfig, and I no longer know how to get
math into a figure. Can you post an example input file?
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* Re: Including xfig graphics
2011-01-07 7:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2011-01-07 9:07 ` Alan BRASLAU
2011-01-07 9:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Alan BRASLAU @ 2011-01-07 9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context, Florian Unglaub; +Cc: Taco Hoekwater
Hello,
Ultimately, you will probably be more satisfied using Metapost graphics
"natively" within ConTeXt. With xfig, you can export to Metapost.
This code can probably be directly used by ConTexT, or perhaps with
minor modifications.
As Taco wrote, if you post an example (file.fig), someone can help
show how it can be used within ConTeXt.
There is no wiki page concerning xfig under
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphics
Maybe I can use this posting to create one...
Alan
On Friday 07 January 2011 08:11:14 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 01:21 PM, Florian Unglaub wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm pretty new to ConTeXt and stumbled upon a problem when trying to use
> > Xfig:
> >
> > I'm trying to create figures with xfig and including them in my ConTeXt
> > document. I would export them as PDF, but unfortunately I have TeX math
> > inside the figure and I'd like to have native fonts. I used to use a
> > combinded LaTeX/PDF export in the past with LaTeX.
> >
> > Is there any practical solution to this?
>
> It's been ages since I last used xfig, and I no longer know how to get
> math into a figure. Can you post an example input file?
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* Re: Including xfig graphics
2011-01-07 9:07 ` Alan BRASLAU
@ 2011-01-07 9:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-01-07 15:39 ` Florian Unglaub
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2011-01-07 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan BRASLAU; +Cc: ntg-context, Florian Unglaub
On 01/07/2011 10:07 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ultimately, you will probably be more satisfied using Metapost graphics
> "natively" within ConTeXt. With xfig, you can export to Metapost.
> This code can probably be directly used by ConTexT, or perhaps with
> minor modifications.
I did a quick test, and the transfig mp code starts with this nice (!)
block of verbatimtex:
% +MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
verbatimtex
%&latex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
etex
% -MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
%SetFigFont macros for latex
verbatimtex
%
\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
\reset@font\fontsize{#1}{#2pt}%
\fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
\selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%
\ifx\SetFigFontSize\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFontSize#1#2{%
\fontsize{#1}{#2pt}%
\selectfont}%
\fi%
etex
It looks configurable-ish, but I do not feel like experimenting
without a proper test case.
Best wishes,
Taco
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2011-01-07 9:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2011-01-07 15:39 ` Florian Unglaub
2011-01-08 17:34 ` Alan BRASLAU
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From: Florian Unglaub @ 2011-01-07 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:09:47AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> I did a quick test, and the transfig mp code starts with this nice (!)
> block of verbatimtex:
>
> % +MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
> verbatimtex
> %&latex
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> etex
> % -MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
[...]
> It looks configurable-ish, but I do not feel like experimenting
> without a proper test case.
I tried exporting to metapost inside xfig aswell yesterday, leading to
similar results as posted above.
I found out that XFig uses a small shell script called 'fig2dev' to do
all the exporting to other formats. This script supports an option '-o'
to use plain TeX.
I tried \input'ing the resulting .mp file into my ConTeXt-file:
\startuseMPgraphic{foo}
\input ../figures/bar.fig
\stopuseMPgraphic
\placefigure[here][fig:foo]{A small test}{
\useMPgraphic{foo}
}
This, however, doesn't work and shows the figure as 'undefined' in the
PDF.
My current solution now is to convert the XFig file to MetaPost with
fig2dev and use mptopdf.
Regards, Florian.
PS: Sorry for the duplicate message, Taco. I forgot to CC to the list.
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2011-01-07 15:39 ` Florian Unglaub
@ 2011-01-08 17:34 ` Alan BRASLAU
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From: Alan BRASLAU @ 2011-01-08 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Florian Unglaub; +Cc: ntg-context
Florian,
This is not exactly how to proceed.
The metapost export needs to be stripped of its preamble
before being used with ConTeXt.
Can you send us a (simple) concrete example, i.e. .fig file.
It may not be worth the effort to get fig2dev fixed to produce pure (LaTeX
free) metapost. I had started learning Metapost playing with xfig exports, but
quickly entirely dropped xfig and now work directly with metapost code.
Alan
On Friday 07 January 2011 16:39:45 Florian Unglaub wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:09:47AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> > I did a quick test, and the transfig mp code starts with this nice (!)
> > block of verbatimtex:
> >
> > % +MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
> > verbatimtex
> > %&latex
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \begin{document}
> > etex
> > % -MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
>
> [...]
>
> > It looks configurable-ish, but I do not feel like experimenting
> > without a proper test case.
>
> I tried exporting to metapost inside xfig aswell yesterday, leading to
> similar results as posted above.
>
> I found out that XFig uses a small shell script called 'fig2dev' to do
> all the exporting to other formats. This script supports an option '-o'
> to use plain TeX.
>
> I tried \input'ing the resulting .mp file into my ConTeXt-file:
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{foo}
> \input ../figures/bar.fig
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \placefigure[here][fig:foo]{A small test}{
> \useMPgraphic{foo}
> }
>
> This, however, doesn't work and shows the figure as 'undefined' in the
> PDF.
>
> My current solution now is to convert the XFig file to MetaPost with
> fig2dev and use mptopdf.
>
> Regards, Florian.
>
> PS: Sorry for the duplicate message, Taco. I forgot to CC to the list.
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