Phillip Helbig writes: > I disagree here. The beauty of PSFRAG is that one can divorce the > graphic from the .tex file. Often, graphics are made for overheads etc > and later recycled in a .tex file. i can sort of see this scenario, but it sounds weird. why dont you generate the graphics in a high-level system if this is your need? > recreate the plot, which in some cases might mean a lot of effort, every > time I change fonts in my document!!!!!!! The whole beauty of TeX/LaTeX > is macros; I don't want to hard-wire fonts into anything! i sympathize. and would use Metapost for my plots, obviating the problem :-} (but then Berthold would hate me again) > Or I might use a plot in one paper with one notation and the same plot, > say for a semi-popular talk, with a different notation. > > Long live PSFRAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > psfrag is great, _if_ you live in a world of one formatter, and one page description language. Big "if", if you ask me (which you didnt, before anyone says so) i know i sound like an evangelist, but XML/MathML/SVG really *are* designed to cover this sort of game. your SVG graphic will embed MathML markup cleanly. Sebastian