Greetings I've found Xfig to be increasingly difficult to use on newer Linux systems and consider now using Inkscape. It seems to me I have to edit the same document several times in order to get changes to take effect. For some reason, the "special" flag on text doesn't stick the way it used to. And the bezier curves aren't too smooth either. The only reason I stay with Xfig is that Lyx has the built-in External Document grabber thing that runs the script to export the 2 parts.
Now Inkscape has a similar --export-latex flag, described here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape That has preamble code that works exactly like the LyX external document s. I think it would be nice if you incorporate that in LyX, save me the trouble of running inkscape scripts separately. I made a small test file and document to convince myself this would work. It is much nicer to work with Inkscape than Xfig, and the document compiled after I figured out it required graphicx and color packages http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/test.pdf http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/test.pdf_tex http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/testInkscape.lyx And the output from that is: http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/testInkscape.pdf pj Oh, one more thing. Did you see this nice shout-out to Lyx on the IBM developerWorks website You've impressed somebody over there. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-lyx/index.html?ca=drs http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-lyx/os-lyx-pdf.pdf -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu
