On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to
use xfig produced figures in LyX? Help file Userguide tells me to check
for detailed explanation under ImbeddedObjects but there I canĀ“t find any
detailed explanation.

Wolfgang,

  I can try.

I have quite a number of xfig produced files which are all exported as .eps
files and inserted in the LyX document as floats.

  That's what I've done, too.

My aim is to have the text of my fig files in the same font and size as the
text in the document. This is not the case now.

Do I have to use for all my fig files the xfig -specialtext or is there a
global command to do that for all files in one run?

  I do not know if you can post-process the typeface, but I made the
Palatino typeface the standard in Xfig images because that's the standard
typeface I use in all my documents. This produces the same text appearance
in both body and images.

And how exactly do I get it into the document? Is it the pstex or the
pstex_t file or both? Or is this done internally by LyX? With Enter
(Einfuegen) File (Datei) external Material I get the fig file but the text
of the pdf output is not scaled correctly (nor the fonts). Somehow I
haven't caught the way of entering it.

  I've always used Insert -> Float -> Float Figure, then specified the file
in the dialog box.

  Perhaps I don't understand your concerns well enough.

Rich

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