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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2c0757af447 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label labelfig</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Labelling graphics</h3> +<p/>“Technical” graphics (such as graphs and diagrams) are often +labelled with quite complex mathematical expressions: there are few +drawing or graphing tools that can do such things (the honourable +exception being MetaPost, which allows you to program the labels, in +(La)TeX, in the middle of specifying your graphic). +<p/>Labels on graphics produced by all those <em>other</em> tools is where +the <i>psfrag</i> package can help. Place an unique +text in your graphic, using the normal text features of your tool, and +you can ask <i>psfrag</i> to replace the text with arbitrary +(La)TeX material. <i>Psfrag</i>’s “operative” command is +<code>\</code><code>psfrag{<em>PS text</em>}{<em>Repl text</em>}</code>, which instructs +the system to replace the original (“<code>PS</code>”) text with the +TeX-typeset replacement text. Optional +arguments permit adjustment of position, scale and rotation; full +details may be found in <i>pfgguide</i> in the distribution. +<p/>Since <i>psfrag</i> works in terms of (encapsulated) PostScript files, +it needs extra work for use with PDFLaTeX. The +<a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html"><i>pst-pdf</i> package</a> can support such +usage. In fact, the <i>pst-pdf</i> support package +<i>auto-pst-pdf</i> offers a configuration setting precisely for +use with <i>psfrag</i>. +<p/>On the other hand, + + <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">VTeX</a>’s GeX processor +explicitly deals with <i>psfrag</i>, both in its free and +commercial instances. +<p/>The <i>psfragx</i> package goes one step further than +<i>psfrag</i>: it provides a means whereby you can put the +<i>psfrag</i> commands into the preamble of your EPS file +itself. <i>Psfrag</i> has such a command itself, but deprecates +it; <i>psfragx</i> has cleaned up the facility, and provides a +script <i>laprint</i> for use with <i>Matlab</i> to produce +appropriately tagged output. (In principle, other graphics +applications could provide a similar facility, but apparently none does.) +<p/><i>Emacs</i> users may find the embedded editor <i>iTe</i> a +useful tool for placing labels: it’s a (La)TeX-oriented graphical +editor written in <i>Emacs Lisp</i>. You create +<code>iteblock</code> environments containing graphics and text, and +may then invoke <i>iTe</i> to arrange the elements relative to one +another. +<p/>Another useful approach is <i>overpic</i>, which overlays a +<code>picture</code> environment on a graphic included by use of +<code>\</code><code>includegraphics</code>. This treatment lends itself to ready placement +of texts and the like on top of a graphic. The package can draw a +grid for planning your “attack”; the distribution comes with simple +examples. +<p/><i>Pstricks</i> can of course do everything that <i>overpic</i> +can, with all the flexibility of PostScript programming that it offers +The <i>pstricks</i> web site has a page with several +<a href="http://pstricks.tug.org/main.cgi?file=Examples/overlay">examples of labelling</a> +which will get you started; if <i>pstricks</i> is +<a href="FAQ-drawing.html">an option for you</a>, this route is worth a try. +<p/>The confident user may, of course, do the whole job in a picture +environment which itself includes the graphic. I would recommend +<i>overpic</i> or the <i>pstricks</i> approach, but such things +are plainly little more than a convenience over what is achievable +with the do-it-yourself approach. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>auto-pst-pdf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf.zip">macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>iTe</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ite.zip">support/ite</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ite.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ite/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>laprint</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psfragx</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>overpic.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/overpic.zip">macros/latex/contrib/overpic</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/overpic.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/overpic/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>psfrag.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfrag.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psfrag</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfrag.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfrag/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>psfragx.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psfragx</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psfragx/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pstricks.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks.zip">graphics/pstricks</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pst-pdf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/> +<p/><p/><p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=labelfig">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=labelfig</a> +</body> |