Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_pdf_doc

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] >>you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the >>subroutine sub

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:34:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it make sense to add it to this wiki page? > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks Christian, I have just uploaded the requested example and a short explanation. Regards, Paul

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread chr
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go > > to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the > > indicated sections) the lines below:

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reconfigure LyX and restart it. Then, the entry PDF4 should show up in > th menu View. I forgot to say that ps4pdf produces, if PSTricks figures are present, much smaller pdf files than ps2pdf, which is important when our

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: As far as pstricks figures are concerned, you are right, but what about a document with a majority of non-pstricks figures ? I guess some users would like to take advantage of tex2pdf AND ps4pdf ? Does this make sense ? you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go > to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the > indicated sections) the lines below: Sorry, I forgot the file in my previous post.

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soon, I will send you my example modified in order to be used with > ps4pdf and some guidance how to customise LyX so that it can deal > automatically with ps4pdf. The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf with

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - using View->PDF, which should run latex->dvips->ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways maybe

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:07:59 +0100 >> >>Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> ps4pdf does a similar job

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - using View->PDF, which should run latex->dvips->ps2pdf >this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not >possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need >this, then the other ways maybe intere

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Johnson wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script "tex2pdf" does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions, then a pdf image prone to pdflatex compilation. So after a ps4pdf run, it should be possible to run tex2pdf, unless tex2pdf kills the PSforPDF contents. no, ps4pdf has _

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf > output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. > In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script > "tex2pdf

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600 >>From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >> >>This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script "tex2pdf" does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so the pstricks do no

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:01 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is > > it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use > PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text > on axes, labels, ... For oth

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other drawing tools you often have to change the fonts with psfrag, othe

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, Rich. An example is below. Thanks, Paul. I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is whether the effort of coding everything is worthwhile for many illustrations. This comment is not meant to ignite a flame war or cast aspersi

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:13:51 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would I open a figure float, center the paragraph, then open the ERT box > to write the pstricks code? Yes, Rich. An example is below. Regards, Paul #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.ly

Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I've gone through the PSTricks tutorial as well as Herbert's fine document on the package. Now I understand that I can specify the location of the image within a document, but that does not allow it to float. The latter is desireable when the figures are part of a large document such as a long re