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+Fig4LaTeX is designed to simplify management of the figures in a large LaTeX
+document. Fig4LaTeX is appropriate for projects that include
+figures with graphics created by XFig -- in particular, graphics which use
+the combined PS/LaTeX (or PDF/LaTeX) export method. When such a figure includes
+text elements that are marked with the "special" flag, those texts are actually
+rendered by LaTeX and only the strictly graphical elements of the figure are
+rendered by including an image. See the example document, included in this
+directory which has been cunningly named "example.tex".
+
+In a large project one would typically place the .fig files in a seperate
+sub-directory. In "example.tex" the figures are in a sub-directory named
+"figs/" -- changing into that directory and running the fig4latex script
+produces a Makefile, one then runs "make" in order to create the .tex and
+.eps (or .pdf) files which contain the graphic.
+
+Fig4latex has been (minimally) tested in an Ubuntu linux environment.
+The prerequisites are Perl, fig2dev and Make, so it could probably be made to
+work in other environments.
+
+Usage: fig4latex [-d dir] [-m NUM] [-p] [-l] [-h]
+
+ -d DIR Directory containing the figures (a path relative to
+ the directory where your LaTeX source files are).
+ -m NUM Magnification factor.
+ -p Pdflatex -- create makefile for use with pdflatex -- the images
+ get converted to pdf format.
+ -l Latex -- create makefile for use with (regular) latex -- the images
+ are exported as eps format. (this is the default)
+ -h Help -- print this message and quit.
+
+
+
+
+--Joe Fields
+ fieldsj1@southernct.edu
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ This file is part of fig4latex.
+
+ fig4latex is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ fig4latex is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with fig4latex. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+