Don't know for sure if this is relevant, but ^ is indeed a LaTeX character
which invokes superscript in math mode, as in $x^{3}$.
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Britton Kerin
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Martin Kraska wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Nuno Guerra wrote:
>
> > Ok, perhaps there many other ways and probably most of them better than
> > psfrag... But (sorry if I'm being a bit insistent in this point) I feel a
> > bit frustrated not to be able to make a simple ^ in Tex style! Shouldn't
> > Tex style allow any latex command, anything we could put in the .tex file?
> > I do have a doubt about this, however: I don't know if we could need
> > \^{ } in tex style...
> >
>
> Why typing the math stuff in the psfrag commands in tex mode at all?
> Just type the second argument as a math inset. That worked with all
> 0.12.1px including 8.
>
> So you can have the preview of your eps-figure and of the related math
> stuff within lyx. That's as good as in Xdvi. I'd even put this
> as one of the recommended methods of graphics inclusion to the User's
> Guide:
>
> - Create your picture with Xfig, gnuplot or whatever program can produce
> eps. Give text objects as placeholders for
> latex formulas or symbols. Save the picture and export as eps (In
> Xfig just a
> right mouse click on the export button if this is the default format).
>
> - In your Lyx-Document: Create a figure float and include your picture as
> EPS.
>
> - Now that you got the preview of the graphic you can modify the texts
> using the command \psfrag{text}{replacement} (must be in tex-mode, i.e.
> red). "text" is the text string in your picture to be replaced by
> "replacement". Replacement is not necessarily to be given in tex-mode,
> it can be a math inset.
>
> - \psfrag has extra options for adjusting the alignments between text and
> replacement. This can only be checked in the ps preview. If text and
> replacement are approximately of the same size, you hardly have to rely
> on that.
>
> - Put \usepackage{psfrag} to your Latex preamble.
>
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