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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html index b8c83fd31db..41af36c2aff 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label labelfig</title> </head><body> <h3>Labelling graphics</h3> -<p>"Technical" graphics (such as graphs and diagrams) are often +<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 @@ -11,27 +11,44 @@ exception being MetaPost, which allows you to program the labels, in 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 +(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 +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. -(Unfortunately, <i>psfrag</i> can't be used with PDFLaTeX, +(Unfortunately, <i>psfrag</i> can’t be used with PDFLaTeX, though one might hope that it would be susceptible to the same sort of treatment as is used in the <i>pdftricks</i> package. 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.) +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 +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 of -<a href="http://pstricks.de/Examples/overlay.phtml">examples of labelling</a> +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 @@ -40,8 +57,11 @@ environment which itself includes the graphic. I would recommend are plainly little more than a convenience over what is achievable with the do-it-yourself approach. <dl> +<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>) </dl> <p> |