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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-figetc.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-figetc.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ba201ccb0f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-figetc.html @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label figetc</title> +</head><body> +<h3>(La)TeX-friendly drawing packages</h3> +<p/><p/><i>(X)Fig</i> is a menu driven tool that allows you to +draw objects on the screen of an X workstation; <i>transfig</i> +is a set of tools which translate the code <i>fig</i>. The list +of export formats is very long, and includes Metafont and MetaPost, +Encapsulated PostScript and PDF, as well as combinations that wrap +a graphics format in a LaTeX import file, which may include +LaTeX commands to place text (compiled by LaTeX itself) as +labels, etc., in the figures. +<p/>There’s no explicit port of <i>xfig</i> to windows (although it is +believed to work under <i>cygwin</i> with their X-windows system). +However, the program +<a href="http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/javafig/"><i>jfig</a></i> +is thought by many to be an acceptable substitute, written in Java. +<p/><i>Asymptote</i> is a widely-praised development of the MetaPost +language, which can draw 2D or 3D diagrams, and can also label +diagrams with LaTeX text; copious documentation is available via +<a href="http://asymptote.sourceforge.net"><i>asymptote</a>’s web site</i>. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>asymptote</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/asymptote.zip">graphics/asymptote</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/asymptote/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>xfig</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivegraphics/xfig/">graphics/xfig/</a> +<dt><tt><i>transfig</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/transfig.zip">graphics/transfig</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/graphics/transfig/">browse the directory</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=figetc">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=figetc</a> +</body> |