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From: rostamia@umbc5.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: how to put graphics into TeX under x
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Date: 27 Nov 89 05:38:25 GMT
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In article <3141@hub.UUCP> hubert@spica.ucsb.edu (Hung-Hsien Hubert Chang) writes:
>Well, I got one problem in putting graphics into TeX under 
>X window system. I have drown a rectangle in xfig and save the
>file. The general step is to "fig2tex " the file and it is 
>O.K. The problem comes when I "tex" the converted file.
>The message is undefined control sequence. I wonder why.
>The following is the complete messaage:
>
>Using TeX2.93, old TeX is in /usr/local/bin (except on shamrock)
>.
>This is TeX, C Version 2.93 (no format preloaded)
>(/test.tex
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.1 \mbox
>         {\beginpicture
>?
>
>How to solve this problem? 
>

\mbox is a LaTeX command.  I guess xfig generates a LaTeX, not a TeX, document. 
Try including the xfig output in a LaTeX document, as in:

% This is myfile.tex
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{ducument}
\input{figure.tex}  % where figure.tex is the output of the xfig program
\end{document}

Then execute the command "latex myfile.tex"


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