> >Speaking as a user, and knowing what is needed in my world > >(author-prepared manuscripts for conference proceedings, journals, > >making posters, overheads etc), what is needed which is not in the > >`core' is psfrag, natbib, custom-bib. Also, authors often need to > > Leave out psfrag, and all PS-only hacks, and TeX-only graphics methods. > Best to use standard tools for creating EPS or TIFF files (for ` vector > graphics' and images respectively). Two separate issues here. Even with PostScript files created with `standard tools' (Mathematica, IDL---not to mention my own Fortran programme, which produces the best (for my purposes) PostScript I've seen), one often needs to `muck around' a bit to change axis labelling 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/ My opinions are not necessarily those of NRAL or the University of Manchester.