| Re: Complicated Latex typesetting for IDL ledgend [message #73758 is a reply to message #73666] |
Tue, 23 November 2010 08:40  |
pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007
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To get an idea of the result,
this is a plot I produced when I was testing
psfrag to decide if it was worth it.
http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~pgrigis/fig.ps
Ciao,
Paolo
On Nov 23, 11:21 am, jimbo <james.a.gord...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 3:48 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 23, 1:27 pm, Paolo <pgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> If you want anything more then basic stuff, do use psfrag.
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>>> That will allow you to put any LaTeX formula into your plot.
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>>> IDL own symbols are very limited.
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>> I have for some time intended to make something similar to what
>> mathurl (http://mathurl.com/) does. But so far never had the time to
>> do it. The hard part would be handle the external dependency on LaTeX
>> in a reasonably tolerable and platform-independent way. Maybe with
>> JLaTeXMath through an IDL_Java bridge.
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>> Ideally the LaTeX output should be vectorial, not bitmap. But drawing
>> the vectors might also be tricky, depending on how they are provided.
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> Thank you,
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> PSFrag looks interesting - not a package I have come across, but seems
> to do the job. I think you are on to something with a mathurl type
> system - I would certainly rather write the whole string in Latex
> format and just include the output image as the title say, so the
> spacing etc. is correct. As you say however, scaling bitmaps is
> obviously less than ideal unless you can tie the latex fontsize to the
> charsize tag in IDL?
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> Again, thanks for the prompt replies
>
> J
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