On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:06:58AM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. I'd had the thought of making it easy to
> insert some pre- and post- commands such as \begin{center}\end
> {center}, similar to the way we can now add to the general latex
> preamble. Commands for Beamer to gradually develop a sequence of
> graphs are another good idea, and we're going to work on a way to keep
> scaling and bounding boxes consistent across several graphics to
> support these sorts of crude animations.
So far I only did this kind of tweaking by hand. But yeah, I could see
occasions where automatizing this could be nice.
> Two thoughts on dot2tex, which I don't know very well. As has been
> discussed, GraphViz has an incompatible license, but if it was
> installed it could be useful to have just layout information computed
> and passed into a Sage graph (for use with any sort of rendering, plot
> or latex). It looks like dot2tex will actually create complete latex
> code, and if so, the new GraphLatex class is designed to make adding
> this sort of alternative very easy.
Perfect. I was definitely thinking of adding the doc2tex support
directly into GraphLatex.
> It would be wise then to try to
> coordinate on the names and usage of whatever further options are
> added, allowing for latex code for each package to be generated
> accordingly. That way, one could perhaps get two different latex
> versions with a minimum of changes.
Yup!
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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