>>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:52:45 -0800 (PST) >>From: Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: OT: Xfig for use with LyX >>X-message-flag: Sent virus-free from a linux system. >> >> I know that many of you use xfig and I would like pointers to two tasks I >>need to do frequently: 1) draw S-, Z- or bell curves that are smooth and, in >>the latter case, symetrical and 2) enter Greek letters, math symbols and >>equations on the figure.
1- curves: xfig includes interpolated and approximated splines which can fulfill a lot of needs. A common method is to import a picture of the desired shape, to set the points over the picture in a nearer plane and to delete the picture. 2- math: two methods: a/ use the special flag in the text attributes and type in math in latex, export as combined PS and text, and "input" the foo.pstex_t file in the lyx doc (this is understood by tex2pdf if you want to build the pdf with pdflatex); b/ write small latex formulas (with LyX if you like) in the article class w pagestyle empty , export as eps w dvips -E -o foo.eps foo.dvi and insert the eps in xfig as a picture. b can be used also to write complete paragraphs if you want to use xfig to manage layouts -- Jean-Pierre PS to be complete, there is a third method (and maybe others) which uses psfrag to postprocess the eps exported by xfig, but I don't use it, so I cannot help about it.
