SOLVED: xfig in LyX > no special flag choosable

2023-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 31.08.22 um 10:16 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am 30.08.22 um 10:10 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am 27.08.22 um 13:59 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Slightly OT: Is somebody using xfig in LyX? I can't find in the Text Flags the special flag, only hidden rigid tex Do I miss some

Re: xfig in LyX > no special flag choosable

2022-08-31 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 30.08.22 um 10:10 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am 27.08.22 um 13:59 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Slightly OT: Is somebody using xfig in LyX? I can't find in the Text Flags the special flag, only hidden rigid tex Do I miss something besides the xfig program (version 3.2.8)? Would

Re: xfig in LyX > no special flag choosable

2022-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 27.08.22 um 13:59 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Slightly OT: Is somebody using xfig in LyX? I can't find in the Text Flags the special flag, only hidden rigid tex Do I miss something besides the xfig program (version 3.2.8)? Would like to come back to this question. Apparentl

xfig in LyX > no special flag choosable

2022-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Slightly OT: Is somebody using xfig in LyX? I can't find in the Text Flags the special flag, only hidden rigid tex Do I miss something besides the xfig program (version 3.2.8)? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Support for xfig graphics (Solved)

2022-06-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
ws to handle the case where xfig produces both a LaTeX file (with the text) and a pdf file (with the image). And indeed the stock fig2pdftex.py lacks a shebang on my Mac which I would not consider a feature so I have raised it as https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12560 on the tracker. Coul

Re: Support for xfig graphics (Solved)

2022-06-25 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
rwise the standard would fall to the Intel distribution. > > It seems that the problem was indeed a mix-up with different python > distributions. Got rid of the Intel python distribution and now the > internal conversion of Xfig files is working again. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-22 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 03.54.53 WEST Steve Litt wrote: > That can't be right. Python 2 has been deprecated for years. I'm sure > LyX gives you the choice to use Python 3. What I mean here is that LyX can still use python 2 as the python version. In the autodetection stage, in lyx 2.3, it can

Re: Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-21 Thread Steve Litt
José Abílio Matos said on Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:29:48 +0100 >LyX is choosing python2 as the python version and since that python2 >does not work then the converters that use python fail. That can't be right. Python 2 has been deprecated for years. I'm sure LyX gives you the choice to use Python 3.

Re: Support for xfig graphics (Solved)

2022-06-21 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
rd distribution for python in .bashrc with: > alias python='/usr/bin/python3' > otherwise the standard would fall to the Intel distribution. It seems that the problem was indeed a mix-up with different python distributions. Got rid of the Intel python distribution and now the int

Re: Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-21 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Tuesday, 21 June 2022 14.12.14 WEST Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > It seems that the support for xfig figures is not working on my system. See > the attached files. > The Xfig file sets the TeX flag for text. I think that this could be a manifestation of the problem that you have. LyX is

Re: Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-21 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On terça-feira, 21 de junho de 2022 13:09:22 -03 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/06/2022 à 15:12, Rudi Gaelzer a écrit : > > Running: > > Fedora Core 36 on x64 box > > KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 > > LyX Version 2.3.6.1 (provided by Fedora repo) > > >

Re: Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/06/2022 à 15:12, Rudi Gaelzer a écrit : Running: Fedora Core 36 on x64 box KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 LyX Version 2.3.6.1 (provided by Fedora repo) It seems that the support for xfig figures is not working on my system. See the attached files. The Xfig file sets the TeX flag for text

Support for xfig graphics

2022-06-21 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
Running: Fedora Core 36 on x64 box KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 LyX Version 2.3.6.1 (provided by Fedora repo) It seems that the support for xfig figures is not working on my system. See the attached files. The Xfig file sets the TeX flag for text. In the LyX window, the preview fails. When I

xfig and lyx

2021-12-14 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann via lyx-users
I use xFig 3.2.8 and would like to use it for a diagram to be inserted as a graphic in a lyx document. Some blocks in the diagram use greek symbols. Has somebody used xFig in such a way that LaTeX takes over the text of the diagram? An example figure would be great. Wolfgang -- lyx-users

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag, den 21.04.2018, 08:48 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > it turned out that I did not have the fig file in my folder. I was > mislead by the correct figure name shown in the lyx file. In the case > of > 'normal' figures lyx informs the user, that the file is missing. Can > this feat

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 20.04.2018 um 15:35 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Am Freitag, den 20.04.2018, 15:22 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Jürgen, I have listed infos from the terminal output which might have a clue for you, but did not find any converter claims. I started from the end of the output and went up t

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Freitag, den 20.04.2018, 15:22 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > Jürgen, I have listed infos from the terminal output which might have > a clue for you, but did not find any converter claims. I started from > the end of the output and went up to the begin: This is not the complete output. Pos

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
r to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: pdftex_t) Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. I can't view it even if I select 'show output anyway'. I have to produce the pdftex_t file which I do -as mentioned before- in xfig by 'export the xfig figure as combi

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
fault extension: pdftex_t) Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. I can't view it even if I select 'show output anyway'. I have to produce the pdftex_t file which I do -as mentioned before- in xfig by 'export the xfig figure as combined PDF/LaTeX (both parts)'. Do you

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
ault extension: pdftex_t) > Enter file name: > ! Emergency stop. > > > I can't view it even if I select 'show output anyway'. I have to > produce the pdftex_t file which I do -as mentioned before- in xfig by > 'export the xfig figure as combined P

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
ds_Schrempf-Fig02.pdftex_t' not found. Type X to quit or to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: pdftex_t) Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. I can't view it even if I select 'show output anyway'. I have to produce the pdftex_t file which I do -as

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2018-04-19 17:34 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Engelmann : > Here is a MWE. How can I scale it down in the pdf export? > Like this. Have a look at the External Material dialog, third pane ("Size and Rotation"), where I entered the size as "80 Textwidth %". Why you insert the figure a second time as a PDF i

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am 19.04.2018 um 15:51 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 2018-04-19 14:58 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Engelmann mailto:engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>>: Thanks, Jürgen, I think one mistake I made was, not to export the xfig figure as combined PDF/LaTeX (both parts), which I now did.

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2018-04-19 14:58 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Engelmann : > Thanks, Jürgen, > I think one mistake I made was, not to export the xfig figure as combined > PDF/LaTeX (both parts), which I now did. In the Lyx:Graphics window I > clicked Scale graphics (%) and changed the output size from 50

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
figure in a float figure which I inserted as > file >  > external material > xfig figure. It is shown too large in the pdf > output, whatever textwidth I insert. You can put it in the Scalebox inset (from the Graphic Boxes module). Having said that, using t

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
ted as > file >  > external material > xfig figure. It is shown too large in the pdf > output, whatever textwidth I insert. You can put it in the Scalebox inset (from the Graphic Boxes module). Having said that, using the external material dialog size options should also w

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2018-04-19 8:56 GMT+02:00 Jürgen Spitzmüller : > Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2018, 20:26 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > > I can't scale a x.fig figure in a float figure which I inserted as > > file > > > external material > xfig figure. It is shown too large

Re: how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2018, 20:26 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > I can't scale a x.fig figure in a float figure which I inserted as > file > > external material > xfig figure. It is shown too large in the pdf > output, whatever textwidth I insert. You can put i

how to scale a xfig figure in lyx?

2018-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I can't scale a x.fig figure in a float figure which I inserted as file > external material > xfig figure. It is shown too large in the pdf output, whatever textwidth I insert. Wolfgang

Re: xfig drawing in LyX 2.1.0 does not work

2014-10-03 Thread Helge Hafting
lp text. It should mention support for "pdftex_t". If it doesn't, then your fig2dev migh be too old. Or there may be a bug so this doesn't work with windows. Do windows users use xfig much? Helge Hafting

Re: xfig drawing in LyX 2.1.0 does not work

2014-10-02 Thread Jens Nellesen
> FIG conversion to EPS and PDF uses different software. One of them might be > set up > wrongly. First, try Tools->Reconfigure, and restart lyx. > If that did not help, Tools->Preferences, select "File Handling" > You will find a list of converters between various file formats. You should > find

Re: xfig drawing in LyX 2.1.0 does not work

2014-07-09 Thread Helge Hafting
On 09. juli 2014 15:39, Jens Nellesen wrote: Hello everyone, after upgrading to LyX 2.1.0 on Win7 I realized that I cannot produce PDF output if an xfig drawing is included in the LyX document. (BUT the preview of the xfig drawing works. Strangely enough, PS output DOES work.) In a fedora

xfig drawing in LyX 2.1.0 does not work

2014-07-09 Thread Jens Nellesen
Hello everyone, after upgrading to LyX 2.1.0 on Win7 I realized that I cannot produce PDF output if an xfig drawing is included in the LyX document. (BUT the preview of the xfig drawing works. Strangely enough, PS output DOES work.) In a fedora-vbox I do not experience this problem. Thanks

Re: xfig and LyX

2012-10-29 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Could you tell me, whether this 'bring together both' is a task for xfig > or for grafics/external material on the lyx side? It is a LyX issue. xfig (or any other program) does not know (and should not need to know) about the internals of file

Re: xfig and LyX

2012-10-28 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
s, Georg, now I got it. I am translating Georg's hint for entering .fig files with greek letters in Lyx, since other people might have a problem with it too. You imported the xfig-file as a grafic. But in this case the special mechanism for exchanging the text does not work. Instead, a dire

Re: xfig and LyX

2012-10-26 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012, 21:23:11 schrieb Georg Baum: > > Thanks, Georg, > > but I have still not managed to get the greek letter displayed in the .fig > file in LyX. If you don't mind, I would like to send you a minimal lyx > file and the fig file privately (to

Re: xfig and LyX

2012-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2012, 21:23:11 schrieb Georg Baum: Thanks, Georg, but I have still not managed to get the greek letter displayed in the .fig file in LyX. If you don't mind, I would like to send you a minimal lyx file and the fig file privately (together 10kb) for a trial. May I? Wolfg

Re: xfig and LyX

2012-10-23 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > But I can't get it work. > I am using Lyx 2.1.0 > and I have transfig installed which contains fig2dev > > What I did: > In xfig (3.2.5b): > Text flags > special flag >special >set > Text-font > use Postscript Fonts > use La

xfig and LyX

2012-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I had posted this before but had no response so far. Could somebody who successfully uses greek symbols in xfig and includes the fig file in LyX give me a hint? Original text: I try to insert greek in a xfig file under Lyx using this (Oct2006 Helge Hafting/Rich Shepard): 1. insert '$\mu

xfig and LyX

2012-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I had posted this before but had no response so far. Could somebody who successfully uses greek symbols in xfig and includes the fig file in LyX give me a hint? Original text: I try to insert greek in a xfig file under Lyx using this (Oct2006 Helge Hafting/Rich Shepard): 1. insert '$\mu

xfig and LyX

2012-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I try to insert greek in a xfig file under Lyx using this (Oct2006 Helge Hafting/Rich Shepard): 1. insert '$\mu$' in your figure; 2. select 'Special flag' and 'Use LaTeX fonts' for '$\mu$'; 3. insert your Xfig picture in your LyX document with Insert ->

xfig file in LyX note causes conversion error

2011-03-03 Thread Jens Nellesen
Hi, if I put an xfig file into a LyX note, a dialog pops up saying """ LyX: Cannot convert file No information for converting fig format files to asciixfig. Define a converter in the preferences. """ The same dialog also shows up every time I strike the E

Re: export with elyxer and included xfig-images

2011-01-15 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Tino, On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Tino Langer wrote: > I did some tests using elyxer to export a lyx-file to html. It works reaaly > fine for me, but there is one problem. in my lyx-file I included some > xfig-files (external material), but these files are not converted to a

export with elyxer and included xfig-images

2011-01-14 Thread Tino Langer
Hello, I did some tests using elyxer to export a lyx-file to html. It works reaaly fine for me, but there is one problem. in my lyx-file I included some xfig-files (external material), but these files are not converted to an image format which is useable in webbrowsers. Is it possible to

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

2010-06-18 Thread Pascal Francq
Hi, I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, a PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the

Re: external material: xfig >greek alpha

2010-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
needing the new TeXLive2009. I will report, if I have found out. Wolfgang > Wolfgang Engelmann writes: > > > In Xfig 'Text Font' set 'Use Latex Font' > > > > what I do here is: > > After selecting in XFig T(ext) I click on > > Times-Roman i

Re: external material: xfig >greek alpha

2010-02-11 Thread Ignacio Garcia
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: > > In Xfig 'Text Font' set 'Use Latex Font' > what I do here is: > After selecting in XFig T(ext) I click on > Times-Roman in the lowermost right-most box called Text Font. > The Font Menu pops up with many fonts. In the l

Re: external material: xfig >greek alpha

2010-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Thursday 11 February 2010 13:03:40 schrieb Ignacio Garcia: Thanks, Ignacio, but: > In Xfig 'Text Font' set 'Use Latex Font' what I do here is: After selecting in XFig T(ext) I click on Times-Roman in the lowermost right-most box called Text Font. The Font Menu pops

Re: external material: xfig >greek alpha

2010-02-11 Thread Ignacio Garcia
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: > > I am trying to use the greek alpha in an illustration produced by XFig. > I used > $\alpha$ > in the text, > exported it from XFig as > combined PS/LaTeX (both parts) > and inserted the fig-file in the lyx document. > > the ill

external material: xfig >greek alpha

2010-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am trying to use the greek alpha in an illustration produced by XFig. I used $\alpha$ in the text, exported it from XFig as combined PS/LaTeX (both parts) and inserted the fig-file in the lyx document. the illustration in the pdf output of the document shows, however, not a greek alpha, as

Re: xfig figure in beamer presentation

2009-10-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > 3) inserted xfig file directly How? With the External template (Insert > File > External Material), you are supposed to get what you want. Jürgen

xfig figure in beamer presentation

2009-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
How do I get an xfig figure into a frame of a beamer presentation with LyX? I tried these three methods and all seem to give the same output: 1) exported xfig file to .eps and inserted it 2) opened xfig with -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default which produced the .pstex and pstex_t

xfig figure inclusion in lyx 1.5.7

2009-06-07 Thread subir singh
Hi, I am using lyx1.5.7 on windows XP. I want to have a figure with greek symbols, so I tried including xfig file directly as external document. The problem is when I try and compile it gives:- An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/program Files/LyX15/Resource/scrip on clicking the ok

XFig and LyX (Was: Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?)

2009-05-25 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Dear all, I have just (within the last week or so, using the 2.0.0 svn development code, which I've kept up with and compiled) started having problems using XFig figures within LyX. Previously (and the mechanism is still there), to insert an XFig figure, I'd use the "ex

help: xfig and lyx1.5.4 on windows

2008-12-06 Thread Subir Singh Lamba
Hi, I am using lyx1.5.4 on windows XP. I want to have a figure with greek symbols, so I tried including xfig file directly as external document. The problem is when I try and compile it gives:- An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/program Files/LyX15/Resource/scrip on clicking the ok

scaling xfig previews

2008-08-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Hi, LyXers, I've noticed that in the 1.6.0svn versions (for example, today's revision 26278), the External Material dialog (when inserting a figure, e.g.) gives the tab LaTeX and LyX Options. In this tab, there is the "Show in LyX" and resultant "Scale on Screen" option, where I usually hav

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: > Yes, if you mark the text field as LateX in xfig the equation > will be latex compiled and previewed on LyX screen. At least > it works in 1.6, maybe there's a bug in 1.5... > > You need the instant-preview package and dvipng installed for > t

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Allen L. Barker
> Yes, if you mark the text field as LateX in xfig the equation > will be latex compiled and previewed on LyX screen. At least > it works in 1.6, maybe there's a bug in 1.5... > > You need the instant-preview package and dvipng installed for > this to work. Are thes

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: > Yes xifg previewing can already been done thanks to fig2dev which > is part of the xfig program. Just use the external material inset > (Inset->File->External Material) and choose XFig in the combo. In > the display tab, select 'preview'.

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Allen L. Barker
> Yes xifg previewing can already been done thanks to fig2dev which > is part of the xfig program. Just use the external material inset > (Inset->File->External Material) and choose XFig in the combo. In > the display tab, select 'preview'. I think you are missing

Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Allen L. Barker
> 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 can´t find any detailed > explanation. Just FYI, here is my cu

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
g can already be done in a way I am not familiar with? Yes xifg previewing can already been done thanks to fig2dev which is part of the xfig program. Just use the external material inset (Inset->File->External Material) and choose XFig in the combo. In the display tab, select 'preview'. Abdel.

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-11 Thread Allen L. Barker
> I have often used fig2ps (from sourceforge) to transform .fig files > to .eps and then include the resulting eps file in LyX. (I don't > remember what started me doing this; there was a problem of > complexity in my figure a few years ago and this provided the > solution.) > > It is possible to

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-07-03 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
On Jun 25, 2008, at 9:21 AM, 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 can´t find any detailed

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Allen L. Barker wrote: Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag

Re: xfig converter rotates image

2008-07-03 Thread Allen L. Barker
Allen L. Barker wrote: I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag worked on the resulting

xfig converter rotates image

2008-06-27 Thread Allen L. Barker
I recently updated to lyx-1.5.5 from lyx-1.5.3 at the same time time that I updated my Fedora from core 5 to fc8. I am including xfig images as graphics. Before, the converter would automatically take care of the conversion to EPS, so that psfrag worked on the resulting image (which I use to

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread curtis osterhoudt
/* original message below **/ - Original Message From: Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:55:17 AM Subject: Re: Xfig and LyX > With other words, I have to redo all my fig files and add (or c

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > with external template way you mean the way I and Rich use, i.e. export > fig > to eps and insert in Lyx? No. I mean what Abdel uses: Insert->File->External Material and then choose the xfig template. In the file dialog you specify the .fig file.

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008 07:28 schrieb Vaclav Smidl: > Hi Wolfgang, > I also prefer having the fontsize in figures equal to that of the > surrounding text. > > > > If the special flag was set you encountered a bug, either in xfig, > > > fig2dev or in LyX. Otherw

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-26 Thread Vaclav Smidl
Hi Wolfgang, I also prefer having the fontsize in figures equal to that of the surrounding text. > > If the special flag was set you encountered a bug, either in xfig, > > fig2dev or in LyX. Otherwise just set the flag, and the text should be > > typeset by LaTeX. > > Ho

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 13:58 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Use the external inset ("Inset->File->External Material"

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 18:51 schrieb Georg Baum: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 13:26 schrieb Rich Shepard: > >>I can try. > >> > >> > I have quite a number of xfig produced files which are all exported as > >>

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Georg Baum
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 13:26 schrieb Rich Shepard: >> >>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. The externa

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Rich Shepard
get after running xfig -specialtext? I thought this is the way to divide the image part of the fig and the text part so that the latter can be adjusted (by the program) to the font size of my text (and also to include e.g. greek letters as latex etc). I've not done this. I create the figures se

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 13:58 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to > > use xfig produced figures in LyX? > > Use the external inset ("Inset->File->External Material&

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 13:26 schrieb Rich Shepard: > 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 detai

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody kindly point me to an understandable explanation of how to use xfig produced figures in LyX? Use the external inset ("Inset->File->External Material") and choose the XFig template. You should also select "preview" in the di

Re: Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Rich Shepard
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 can´t find any detailed explanation

Xfig and LyX

2008-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
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 can´t find any detailed explanation. I have quite a number of xfig produced files which

EPS images in xfig files don't show in preview

2007-06-12 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi I have started to include xfig files directly into a document to use the splendid feature of direct launching of xfig from Lyx. However there is one minor problem. If the xfig file includes an eps picture, then the eps picture is not previewed. Is there any simple way to fix that

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-07 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello Georg, > > I am sorry for the very late reply, but I was away for the last few > days! > The file Test.lyx which I had sent to you was correct and also read > the file TestFig.fig, but for some reason LyX seems to change the > name of the file from TestFig.fig to LyX

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-06 Thread Philipp Fleig
02.2007 um 09:57 schrieb Georg Baum: Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG -> EPS, FIG -> PDFTEX and FIG -> PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. Ye

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-02 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello, > > ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. > When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, > including some like FIG -> EPS, FIG -> PDFTEX and FIG -> PSTEX, which > I guess would be the relevant ones. Yes,

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread A. Scottedward Hodel
I use the fig2ps script (available on sourceforge) to convert xfig to eps, and then use the eps file in LyX. My makefile has entry: %.eps : %.fig @echo "Making $@ from $<" @fig2ps --forcespecial --add=epsfig --input=../../2120/notes/ 2120head.tex --bbo

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, ok. Attached you find a sample .lyx + xfig file. When I go to preferences in LyX there are a number of converters, including some like FIG -> EPS, FIG -> PDFTEX and FIG -> PSTEX, which I guess would be the relevant ones. I read on http://www.xfig.org/ userman/latex_and_

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert->File- > >External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not > some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Exactly. > Now, when I do this and include the .fig file in my document and

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello Georg, hello Curtis, thank you very much for the kind help. Unfortunately it still does not work. So just to get this right. What I include in LyX via Insert->File- >External material is the original Xfig file .fig and not some .latex file which I exported in Xfig!? Now, when I d

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-02-01 Thread Georg Baum
Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for your quick reply. > Basically this is what I have done, although instead of Insert- > >External I used File->Import->Latex (Plain). Don't use that for xfig figures. > I don't have Insert->External in my LyX

RE: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Curtis Osterhoudt
Hi, Philipp and Rich (and others),On linux, at least, with the QT interface for LyX, I insert xfig figures with Insert -> File ->External Material. Then a pdflatex run includes everything nicely, including "special" text. I, too, invariably start XFig with the special flag

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello, Thank you for the help. Yes I do xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default when I start Xfig. Philipp Am 31.01.2007 um 21:31 schrieb Rich Shepard: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Philipp Fleig wrote: I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, but I

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Philipp Fleig
19:41 schrieb Philipp Fleig: Hello everybody, I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, but I will give it a try anyway. I have created a number of images using Xfig, which all have labels/ text in them. Unfortunately the text does not come out very well and I woul

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Philipp Fleig wrote: I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, but I will give it a try anyway. I have created a number of images using Xfig, which all have labels/text in them. Unfortunately the text does not come out very well and I would also

Re: changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 19:41 schrieb Philipp Fleig: > Hello everybody, > > I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, > but I will give it a try anyway. > I have created a number of images using Xfig, which all have labels/ > text in them. &

changing Xfig figures in LyX

2007-01-31 Thread Philipp Fleig
Hello everybody, I am not sure whether this forum is the right adress for my question, but I will give it a try anyway. I have created a number of images using Xfig, which all have labels/ text in them. Unfortunately the text does not come out very well and I would also like to include some

Re: xfig and 1.4.3

2006-11-23 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:25:47PM +0100, Jens Nellesen wrote: > Enrico, > > heeding your advice > I removed the cygwin-directories in the path prefix > of the native lyx version which I previously added. This should not be necessary. Simply put them in the last position, such that a native comm

Re: xfig and 1.4.3

2006-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
Bo, I think that you should roll out a -5 version to correct this problem and also to comply with: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-apps@cygwin.com/msg17223.html OK. Planned for the thanksgiving Friday. :-) Bo

Re: xfig and 1.4.3

2006-11-22 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:02:36AM +0100, Jens Nellesen wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Jens Nellesen wrote: > >> > >> I included the paths > >> > >> C:\cygwin\bin AND C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin > >> > >> in the path prefix. Now it says "converting into loadable format" all > >> th

Re: xfig and 1.4.3

2006-11-17 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Jens Nellesen wrote: > Hello Enrico, > > I included the paths > > C:\cygwin\bin AND C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin > > in the path prefix. Now it says "converting into loadable format" all > the time instead of "error during conversion ..." but nothing happens

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