I've been trying to understand how LyX's new (in 1.6.7) ability to import svg via inkscape can cooperate with LaTeX markup. I've been experimenting with the inkscape "textext" extension, but, as others have noticed, it is a bit dicey to install and sometimes has unpredictable output.
As an alternative approach, it appears that inkscape 0.48 has an exporter to make pdf_tex. It is very similar to the ps+TeX approach we used to use with xfig before LyX made the external document interface to fig files. There's a mention of this here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LaTeX That points to CTAN here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape/ I'm trying to see how that might work. In the inkscape document, I inserted text with markup $\gamma$. Then in LyX I import as graphics, but the Latex markup does not get converted to math. It just appears as $\gamma$. I've tested the CLI approach: $ inkscape -D -z --file=draw.svg --export-pdf=draw.pdf --export-latex It does work to create draw.pdf and draw.pdf_tex I can't seem to understand the last step of using that with LyX. Suggestions? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
