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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 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b8c83fd31db --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-labelfig.html @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +<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. +(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.) +<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 of +<a href="http://pstricks.de/Examples/overlay.phtml">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>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>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> +<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> |