> 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? I write a Fortran program, run it for several weeks on a computer, and it produces some output. To look at this output, show it to colleagues etc I plot it (again with a Fortran program, in my case, but it could be with anything). I can make an overhead for a talk etc. Depending on various factors, it might end up in a paper for journal A, journal B, a conference proceeding etc---all of which might have different font requirements. If the plot is involved, i.e. takes half an hour to make it (choose contour levels, label certain features, perhaps highlight a certain region, overlay it with another plot etc) I don't want to have to repeat that just to change the font! What does `high-level system' mean here? > > 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) I admit not having looked into METAPOST yet. > 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) In my world (astronomy), at least for now, LaTeX and PostScript are sort of standard and life is not that difficult. > 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. Maybe I can change the Fortran code to make XML/MathML/SVG an output format option. :) (Now it does PostScript, Sixel graphics, Tektronix graphics etc). -- Phillip Helbig Email ......... [log in to unmask] Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. .... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 297) Jodrell Bank Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/