>>From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Creating a document class >>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:54:46 -0400
>>> Here is a solution using xfig to perform the required placement >>> - create an xfig layout of the cover page, >> >>What's an xfig layout? Is it an image? Is it some sort of XML? Where can I >>learn more about this? xfig is a oo drawing tool quite easy to use (the dynamic help is quite efficient); it has a companion application named transfig which provides export in a variety of formats. Among these formats, one exports the drawing as eps and the text as latex (if a special flag is set on texts), allowing to type in latex commnd in the graphic window. You set the family, the size, etc (but not the font) when you draw, so that your graphich will have text in the document font. It offers thus a way to make placements which are complicated in Lyx, I used it in the 90's for transparencies. W.r.t. LyX, xfig in understood as External Material: LyX takes care of the export, be it eps or pdf, so that you submit the .fig file name and not the result of the export (known as "combined PS/LaTeX" or "combined PDF/LaTeX"). Of course, you may use it to create graphics in eps, pdf or png. http://www.xfig.org/ which indicates that development reached an end with version 3.2.5, but this software is pretty mature. As its name says, works under X11 :-( -- Jean-Pierre
