Phillip Helbig writes: > 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? by which i mean, why doesnt the Fortran program have a -font switch? why all the hand work? > > 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. which is fine, wonderful, great - but sadly astronomy is a minuscule niche market, and you cannot really expect to world to suit itself to fit. > Maybe I can change the Fortran code to make XML/MathML/SVG an output > format option. almost certainly. > (Now it does PostScript, Sixel graphics, Tektronix > graphics etc). gasp. Tektronix graphics. you take me back 15 years.... :-} sebastian