On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:25:54AM -0300, Charlls Quarra wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just realized there is a very nice and clean way to
> embed things like math and even subgraphics into eps
> graphics, this rely on the overpic package
> 
> You take the .eps you want to edit and include it in a
> minimal .tex 
...
> then:
> 1) compile it with latex,
> 2) then you get dvips -E test.dvi -o test.eps
... 
> The beauty in this is that you dont need to embed
> extra-stuff into the document
...
 
> Now, im trying to find an approach for visual editing
> the .eps. Until now there are two candidate routes:
> 
> 1) With xfig:
... 
> 2) With .. Lyx!

> In principle 1) is more conceptually affine, since
> xfig is precisely a program for graphics, but
> apparently 2) is easier to do (of course, assuming you
> can write text over an image region and getting the
> position the text was written)

However, I suppose it will be quite hard to implement (and not really
straigtforward to the user that did not invent the scheme :-)

For editing graphics text from within LyX, you can use the psfrag package.
(Normally you will have some ERT boxes in your document, though, but there
is also an option to embed the psfrag stuff into the eps.)

G�nter

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