Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-27 Thread Hans Meine
Am Montag, 27. August 2007 05:53:26 schrieb Angus Leeming: Martin Vermeer wrote: I am also using XFig, and text in special mode, and include the figure as external material. For me it Just Works. You don't even have to start up a separate XFig session manually, just click the button in LyX.

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Hans Meine wrote: I also wonder if the UI could be improved: Actually, external material does not say very much. In which respect does it differ from including graphics (or even include files)? External material might be neither graphics in the usual sense, nor documents. Lines of sheet

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-27 Thread Hans Meine
Am Montag, 27. August 2007 05:53:26 schrieb Angus Leeming: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > I am also using XFig, and text in special mode, and include the figure > > as "external material". For me it Just Works. You don't even have to > > start up a separate XFig session manually, just click the

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Hans Meine wrote: I also wonder if the UI could be improved: Actually, "external material" does not say very much. In which respect does it differ from including graphics (or even include files)? External material might be neither "graphics" in the usual sense, nor "documents". Lines of sheet

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-26 Thread Hans Meine
Thanks Martin, for your answer. On Freitag 24 August 2007, Martin Vermeer wrote: Now the problem that I have is, that the TeX code (i.e. the included .pdftex_t or .tikz files) includes images with \includegraphics{subdir/foobar.pdf/png}, and these files do not exist in LyX's /tmp dir. I

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-26 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: I am also using XFig, and text in special mode, and include the figure as external material. For me it Just Works. You don't even have to start up a separate XFig session manually, just click the button in LyX. You've just made an old man very happy :-) He'd be less

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-26 Thread Hans Meine
Thanks Martin, for your answer. On Freitag 24 August 2007, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Now the problem that I have is, that the TeX code (i.e. the included > > .pdftex_t or .tikz files) includes images with > > \includegraphics{subdir/foobar.pdf/png}, and these files do not exist in > > LyX's /tmp

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-26 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin Vermeer wrote: I am also using XFig, and text in special mode, and include the figure as "external material". For me it Just Works. You don't even have to start up a separate XFig session manually, just click the button in LyX. You've just made an old man very happy :-) He'd be less

TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-24 Thread Hans Meine
Hi! I have been using XFig for creating images, now I want to add text on top of the images. I see the following possibilities: 1) use overpic - I did that in that in the past, and IIRC I sent a feature request somewhere for better overpic support in LyX, but I cannot find it right now 2) use

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:33:35PM +0200, Hans Meine wrote: Hi! I have been using XFig for creating images, now I want to add text on top of the images. I see the following possibilities: 1) use overpic - I did that in that in the past, and IIRC I sent a feature request somewhere for

TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-24 Thread Hans Meine
Hi! I have been using XFig for creating images, now I want to add text on top of the images. I see the following possibilities: 1) use overpic - I did that in that in the past, and IIRC I sent a feature request somewhere for better overpic support in LyX, but I cannot find it right now 2) use

Re: TikZ / pdftex_t support?!

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:33:35PM +0200, Hans Meine wrote: > Hi! > > I have been using XFig for creating images, now I want to add text on top of > the images. I see the following possibilities: > 1) use overpic - I did that in that in the past, and IIRC I sent a feature > request somewhere