Hi, Philipp and Rich (and others), On linux, at least, with the QT interface
for LyX, I insert xfig figures with Insert -> File ->External Material. Then a
pdflatex run includes everything nicely, including "special" text. I, too,
invariably start XFig with the special flags set, because I include LaTeX code
in the XFig files. However, this doesn't address figures which are edited in
XFig but were originally produced elsewhere. I happen to convert a lot of .eps
files to .fig format (using pstoedit, which I'm putting on an OS X machine
right now), and then edit them in XFig. When there are many labels, this is a
huge pain to change each bit of text to "special". I've written a Mathematica
function to do this automatically (it's a very easy hack, because xfig formats
are so nicely transparent), and if you just happen to use Mathematica and want
the package, let me know. However, there must be a regex way or equivalent
program which is even easier to use; I just happen to be "differently abled"
when it comes to regex. Best of luck! C.O.--------
Down with categorical imperative!
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--------> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:
changing Xfig figures in LyX> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:43:24 +0100> To: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]> > Hello,> > Thank you for the help.> Yes I do xfig -specialtext
-latexfonts -startlatexFont default when I > start Xfig.> > Philipp> > Am
31.01.2007 um 21:31 schrieb Rich Shepard:> > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Philipp
Fleig wrote:> >> >> I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my
> >> question, but> >> I will give it a try anyway. I have created a number of
images > >> using Xfig,> >> which all have labels/text in them. Unfortunately
the text does > >> not come> >> out very well and I would also like to include
some math symbols, > >> which> >> Xfig cannot do anyway. Therefore I would now
like to edit the > >> latex files> >> of the images, which I exported in Xfig.
The only problem is that > >> when I> >> try to convert the edited latex file
in LyX back to a pdf or > >> postscript, I> >> get lots of errors saying
things like 'undefined sequence' ... I > >> guess the> >> problme is that I am
missing some package, but I do not really > >> know which> >> one. Does anyone
know how to fix this? Should say that I am a > >> beginner.> >> > Philipp,> >>
> When you start Xfig, do you do it this way?> > xfig -specialtext
-latexfonts -startlatexFont default> >> > Also, if you want ALL of your
figures to be started with special > > text and> > latex fonts, you can set
the following resources in your> > .Xresources or whatever resource file you
use:> > Fig.latexfonts: true> > Fig.specialtext: true> >> > Then you can use
all the LaTeX math commands. I've attached a > > small .eps> > file with a
Greek mu in it to show it can be done.> >> > Look at the Xfig (from the Help
menu) for more information on > > LaTeX and> > Xfig.> >> > Rich> >> > -- > >
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