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From: tara@math.rutgers.edu (Tara Madhyastha)
Newsgroups: ru.qa.tex,comp.text
Subject: Re: tex pictures
Keywords: LateX TeX
Message-ID: <Oct.6.15.43.00.1989.23045@math.rutgers.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 19:43:02 GMT
References: <Oct.5.18.12.00.1989.10808@math.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Oct.5.18.12.00.1989.10808@math.rutgers.edu> kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky) writes:

> I have tried unsuccessfully to include a LaTeX picture in a plain TeX file 
> by using the following procedure:
> 
> 1. latex myfile       %myfile.tex is a LaTeX source.
> 2. dvi2ps myfile.dvi > myfile.ps
> 3. create the file myfile2.tex
> 
>             \vskip 2 in    %space for the picture
>             \special{psfile=myfile.ps}
>             \bye
> 
> 4. tex myfile2
> 5. lpr -d myfile2.dvi
> 
Assuming by "LaTeX picture", you mean a LaTeX file which uses the
built-in picture environment, you don't need to convert it to
PostScript. Inserting the line

\input pictex.tex
\input latexpicobjs.tex

in the beginning of your TeX document will allow you to use the LaTeX
picture objects. You might also want to check out the PicTeX macros
for simple \TeX figures. 

In general, TeX documents converted to PostScript via dvi2ps cannot be
included well as \specials other TeX documents. The new filter I hope
to install shortly, dvitps, will be better that way. 

tara
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Tara Madhyastha                                 tara@rutgers.edu