Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, > > Angus, this maybe intersting for you. > > http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler > > Herbert Herbert, this is indeed very interesting. Many thanks for the pointer. It loo

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, Angus, this maybe intersting for you. http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: >> I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, >> .eps) pair, XFig will specify font size and shape UNLESS a LaTeX >> macro is set already. Thus, in order to use exactly the same LaTeX >> fonts in your document and in your figures, you need to insert a >> litt

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Angus Leeming wrote: I forgot to say. When using XFig and exporting to a (.pstex_t, .eps) pair, XFig will specify font size and shape UNLESS a LaTeX macro is set already. Thus, in order to use exactly the same LaTeX fonts in your document and in your figures, you need to insert a little magic in yo

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks to all. I am now going to digest all this information! Paul

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus Leeming wrote: > > > I don't think that this option is better than using gnuplot with my > gnuplot2fig.sh script to build a .fig file. Gnuplot is an extremely > powerful tool for scientific data preparation, something that PSTricks > can never hope to be. That's not to say that PSTricks is

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Rich Shepard wrote: not sure whether 'octave' (a MatLab replacement) does vector plots or not Octave calls Gnuplot for plots. However, Scilab has actually quite impressive graphing capabilities.

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Herbert Voss wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > >> I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions >> (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial >> picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to >> produce those graphs, but Maple pictures

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps... and

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps... and not vectorial pictu

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to I have used Gnuplot and written an "eps" file, which can be

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Paul, I have no personal experiece (Matlab is available in my institution), If you have kde or qt, you can try: http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ both should be able to produce eps, the latter uses pstoedit to produce .fig files. Vasek On Wednesday

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions > (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial > picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple > to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps...

Re: Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Paul Smith wrote: I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps... and

Vectorial pictures of graphs of functions

2004-11-03 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to be able to produce the graph of certain functions (say, f(x)=ln(x)) and manipulate it with xfig to get a vectorial picture to insert, afterwards, in a LyX document. I could use Maple to produce those graphs, but Maple pictures are bitmaps... and not vectorial pictures. Any