Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_pdf_doc { In fact tex2pdf has a provisional

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_pdf_doc { In fact

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_pdf_doc { In fact tex2pdf has a provisional

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_pdf_doc { In fact

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] >>you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the >>subroutine s

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-18 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:11 +0100 [...] you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex in the the subroutine sub generate_p

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread chr
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the indicated sections) the lines below:

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:34:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make sense to add it to this wiki page? http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks Christian, I have just uploaded the requested example and a short explanation. Regards, Paul

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread chr
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the indicated sections) the lines below:

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:34:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make sense to add it to this wiki page? http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks Christian, I have just uploaded the requested example and a short explanation. Regards, Paul

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread chr
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go > > to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the > > indicated sections) the lines

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-16 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:34:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it make sense to add it to this wiki page? > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks Christian, I have just uploaded the requested example and a short explanation. Regards, Paul

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so the pstricks do not

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600 From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions, then a pdf image prone to pdflatex compilation. So after a ps4pdf run, it should be possible to run tex2pdf, unless tex2pdf kills the PSforPDF contents. no, ps4pdf has

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Johnson wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - using View-PDF, which should run latex-dvips-ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways maybe interesting to

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:07:59 +0100 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - using View-PDF, which should run latex-dvips-ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways maybe

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon, I will send you my example modified in order to be used with ps4pdf and some guidance how to customise LyX so that it can deal automatically with ps4pdf. The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the indicated sections) the lines below: Sorry, I forgot the file in my previous post.

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: As far as pstricks figures are concerned, you are right, but what about a document with a majority of non-pstricks figures ? I guess some users would like to take advantage of tex2pdf AND ps4pdf ? Does this make sense ? you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reconfigure LyX and restart it. Then, the entry PDF4 should show up in th menu View. I forgot to say that ps4pdf produces, if PSTricks figures are present, much smaller pdf files than ps2pdf, which is important when our

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so the pstricks do not

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600 From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions, then a pdf image prone to pdflatex compilation. So after a ps4pdf run, it should be possible to run tex2pdf, unless tex2pdf kills the PSforPDF contents. no, ps4pdf has

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Johnson wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script tex2pdf does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - using View-PDF, which should run latex-dvips-ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways maybe interesting to

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:07:59 +0100 Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - using View-PDF, which should run latex-dvips-ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways maybe

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon, I will send you my example modified in order to be used with ps4pdf and some guidance how to customise LyX so that it can deal automatically with ps4pdf. The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the indicated sections) the lines below: Sorry, I forgot the file in my previous post.

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: As far as pstricks figures are concerned, you are right, but what about a document with a majority of non-pstricks figures ? I guess some users would like to take advantage of tex2pdf AND ps4pdf ? Does this make sense ? you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reconfigure LyX and restart it. Then, the entry PDF4 should show up in th menu View. I forgot to say that ps4pdf produces, if PSTricks figures are present, much smaller pdf files than ps2pdf, which is important when our

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script "tex2pdf" does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and so the pstricks do

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600 >>From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >> >>This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf &

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:20:15 -0600, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf > output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. > In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script >

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: ps4pdf does a similar job as tex2pdf to provide an eps file compiled with the pstricks instructions, then a pdf image prone to pdflatex compilation. So after a ps4pdf run, it should be possible to run tex2pdf, unless tex2pdf kills the PSforPDF contents. no, ps4pdf has

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Johnson wrote: This thread is making me feel too stupid. I don't really care how pdf output gets created, I'm happy to use any of the methods you recommend. In fact, sometimes I can't make it work in lyx but the script "tex2pdf" does what I need. But I now notice it calls pdflatex, and

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - using View->PDF, which should run latex->dvips->ps2pdf >this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not >possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need >this, then the other ways maybe

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Chretien
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document >>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:07:59 +0100 >> >>Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >> >>> ps4pdf does

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:13 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - using View->PDF, which should run latex->dvips->ps2pdf this is the easiest way to get everything as pdf. Not possible is microtyping and breakable links. If you need this, then the other ways

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soon, I will send you my example modified in order to be used with > ps4pdf and some guidance how to customise LyX so that it can deal > automatically with ps4pdf. The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The promised modified example is below. To run ps4pdf within LyX, go > to your preferences file ($HOME/.lyx/preferences) and add (in the > indicated sections) the lines below: Sorry, I forgot the file in my previous post.

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: As far as pstricks figures are concerned, you are right, but what about a document with a majority of non-pstricks figures ? I guess some users would like to take advantage of tex2pdf AND ps4pdf ? Does this make sense ? you can start ps4pdf instead of running pdflatex

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:44:36 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reconfigure LyX and restart it. Then, the entry PDF4 should show up in > th menu View. I forgot to say that ps4pdf produces, if PSTricks figures are present, much smaller pdf files than ps2pdf, which is important when our

Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I've gone through the PSTricks tutorial as well as Herbert's fine document on the package. Now I understand that I can specify the location of the image within a document, but that does not allow it to float. The latter is desireable when the figures are part of a large document such as a long

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:13:51 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I open a figure float, center the paragraph, then open the ERT box to write the pstricks code? Yes, Rich. An example is below. Regards, Paul #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, Rich. An example is below. Thanks, Paul. I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is whether the effort of coding everything is worthwhile for many illustrations. This comment is not meant to ignite a flame war or cast

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other drawing tools you often have to change the fonts with psfrag,

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:01 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other

Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I've gone through the PSTricks tutorial as well as Herbert's fine document on the package. Now I understand that I can specify the location of the image within a document, but that does not allow it to float. The latter is desireable when the figures are part of a large document such as a long

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:13:51 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I open a figure float, center the paragraph, then open the ERT box to write the pstricks code? Yes, Rich. An example is below. Regards, Paul #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, Rich. An example is below. Thanks, Paul. I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is whether the effort of coding everything is worthwhile for many illustrations. This comment is not meant to ignite a flame war or cast

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other drawing tools you often have to change the fonts with psfrag,

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:01 +0100, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other

Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
I've gone through the PSTricks tutorial as well as Herbert's fine document on the package. Now I understand that I can specify the location of the image within a document, but that does not allow it to float. The latter is desireable when the figures are part of a large document such as a long

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:13:51 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Would I open a figure float, center the paragraph, then open the ERT box > to write the pstricks code? Yes, Rich. An example is below. Regards, Paul #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, Rich. An example is below. Thanks, Paul. I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is whether the effort of coding everything is worthwhile for many illustrations. This comment is not meant to ignite a flame war or cast

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Rich Shepard wrote: I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text on axes, labels, ... For other drawing tools you often have to change the fonts with psfrag,

Re: Incorporating PSTricks Figures in a Document

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:01 +0100, Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is > > it is not only the power, which makes it worth to use > PSTricks. It uses by default the same fonts for the text > on axes, labels, ... For