Many scientific journals use their professional scientific
illustrators to rework graphics submitted with an article, so as to
achieve a uniformity of style. Many journals outside the biological
sciences try to save money by requiring the authors to submit
manuscripts ready for publication using a specified LaTeX
documentclass. Graphics are then submitted as a publication-
ready .eps file, which may include vector graphic and/or high
resolution bitmaps. I've found that I get the highest quality graphs
using PSTricks, which is essentially a TeX (or LaTeX) interface to
just about the entire Postscript language. LaTeX itself has limited
ability to do floating point calculations, and I find myself using
RealBasic or Mathematica as engines for generating the PSTricks code
that can be turned into a high quality graph, complete with all fonts
and symbols available to TeX.
I'm a mathematician, not a real scientist, and my graphical needs are
mostly modest. I would like to see a RealBasic user interface tor
Mathlink, as this would permit direct access to the Mathematica
kernel from a RealBasic program. Such user interfaces already exist
for Visual Basic, .NET, Java, Applescript and C/C++.
Michael
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