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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;h2&gt;LaTeX fonts in Xfig figures&lt;/h2&gt; Xfig supports LaTex fonts. Fig files are thus a convenient intermediate file format when generating figures for LaTeX documents. &lt;h3&gt;Man...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;h2&gt;LaTeX fonts in Xfig figures&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> <br /> Xfig supports LaTex fonts. Fig files are thus a convenient intermediate file format when generating figures for LaTeX documents.<br /> <br /> &lt;h3&gt;Manual modification of fig files&lt;/h3&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;To use LaTex fonts in Xfig:&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;Start Xfig.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Select the text tool and on the bottom toolbar choose LaTeX fonts.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Set the &quot;special&quot; text mode.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Enter text. Be sure to use &lt;code&gt;$...$&lt;/code&gt; to denote math symbols.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Compound/group all components of the figure.&lt;br&gt;<br /> Save as &lt;code&gt;filename.fig&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h3&gt;Scripts with fig output&lt;/h3&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;The textspecial mode can also be set in gnuplot scripts&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;#!/usr/bin/gnuplot -persist&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;# gnuplot script snippet&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;set terminal fig color textspecial&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;set output &quot;filename.fig&quot;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;set ylabel &quot;$\\text{y}}$, $y$&quot;;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;set xlabel &quot;x, $x$&quot;;&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;and in Octave scripts&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;#!/usr/bin/octave -qf&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;# octave script snippet&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;filename = [&quot;filename.fig&quot;];&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;ylabel(&quot;$\\text{y}}$, $y$&quot;);&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;xlabel(&quot;x, $x$&quot;);&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;print(filename,&#039;-color&#039;,&#039;-textspecial&#039;);&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;Note the additional &quot;\&quot; in the LaTeX markup.&lt;/p&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h3&gt;Conversion to eps and pdf&lt;/h3&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;p&gt;To convert fig files to eps and pdf files you will need [http://www.courville.org/code/fig2eps/fig2eps fig2eps] and [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/ epstopdf].&lt;/p&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;p&gt;At the command line, run &lt;code&gt;fig2eps filename.fig&lt;/code&gt; to create an eps file of your graphic.&lt;/p&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;p&gt;Run &lt;code&gt;fig2eps filename.fig&lt;/code&gt; and then &lt;code&gt;epstopdf filename.eps&lt;/code&gt; to create a pdf.&lt;/p&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h3&gt;Conversion of ps to fig&lt;/h3&gt;<br /> <br /> pstoedit tree.ps -f fig &gt; tree.fig<br /> <br /> &lt;h3&gt;Document preparation&lt;/h3&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;p&gt;To include a graphic in a LaTeX (or pdfLaTeX document), add&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;code&gt;\includegraphics{/.../filename}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> to your document and run &lt;code&gt;latex filename.tex&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;pdflatex filename.tex&lt;/code&gt;) at the command line. Note that no file extension is needed.&lt;/p&gt;</div>

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