On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:32:09PM +0100, Oscar L?pez wrote: > >Why do you go through MetaPost then? Both xfig and gnuplot can > >produce excellent EPS files. As for lambda and similar things, > >there are some drivers based on LaTeX picture environment. > > Two reasons mainly: > > * How do you insert math labels or even complicated math expressions in > eps files? Maybe, using psfrag? and if I would like to have both
Some programs can generate Postscript+latex code for the labels (e.g., xfig, sketch). > postscript and pdf outputs from the same latex file, afaik there no > exist an efficient pdffrag or something like that. Why do you need that ? You can use ps2pdf. > * How do you show incrementally a graphic during a presentation? Afaik > only using ppower and multiinclude metapost files as layers. Please > check this presentation You can generate a series of EPS files. See e.g. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides/
