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Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)


From: Jonathan Stickel
Subject: Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:16:29 -0800
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Off topic, but...

Short answer: yes!

Long answer: LaTeX is basically a typesetting language, not a graphical document writing program like MSWord. There is a learning curve, but if you have a mind for programming you will love it. Plus it is free. A really good introduction is:

http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

There are also "intermediate" document writing options, such as LyX. And don't forget about OpenOffice.org as a replacement for MSWord.

Jonathan


Henry F. Mollet wrote:
LaTeX ­ A document preparation system
My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would it
take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for submission to
scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can take
the place of MSWord and I won't need it at all?

Using Octave/Gnuplot/AquaTerm I can save as pdf or eps. Current MS Word does
not fully support PDFs and creates a bitmap, therefore print quality is not
adequate. If I insert the EPS into MS Word, I can print with good quality
but cannot see the eps on the screen because I don't have/don't know how to
make an EPS file with Tiff or PICT preview.

So is LaTex the solution to my problem? I could also buy iWorks which
supports PDF and therefore won't rasterize (make a bit map) of my PDF files
that were created with AquaTerm.
Henry

on 2/3/05 7:11 AM, Quentin Spencer at address@hidden wrote:


Rodrigo Santos wrote:


I would like to copy a figure obtained using plot to an .eps format so I
can include it on latex file.



The easiest way to do this is using the "print" command in the
octave-forge package (http://octave.sf.net). It is very similar to the
print function in Matlab. Without this function, you can do something
like this:

gset term postscript
gset output filename.eps
replot

There are additional options for the first command that are in the
gnuplot documentation.



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