Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:4412 comp.sys.mac.apps:3000 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!umeecs!zip.eecs.umich.edu!hucka From: hucka@engin.umich.edu (Michael Hucka) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: "MacTex" or "Textures" anyone? Was: Looking for Mac version of TeX Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 06:59:32 GMT References: <1990Nov30.122255.18006@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <15@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> <161@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <1990Dec4.204921.352@bernina.ethz.ch> <7649@hub.ucsb.edu> <23356@janus.trl.oz> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu Reply-To: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: lampard@janus.trl.oz's message of 13 Dec 90 10:37:46 GMT In article <23356@janus.trl.oz> lampard@janus.trl.oz (Greg Lampard) writes: > In article , hucka@eecs.umich.edu (Michael Hucka) writes: [... text deleted ...] > > Compared to TeXtures (in my opinion): TeXtures seems somewhat faster and has > > a somewhat better previewer, and of course, their proprietary (and > > non-portable) mechanism for including Mac figures in documents. OzTeX does > > support \special commands for including PostScript files, which makes it just > > about equivalent to TeXtures for including pictures (for me, anyway) since, > > on a Mac, you can always produce a PostScript file instead of printing a > > diagram. > > I haven't found things to be quite as simple as this. I have had no > success including PostScript generated my MacDraw II and Canvas into my > LaTeX documents using the \special command. The LaTeX part prints OK, but > the space where the picture should be comes out empty. Maybe I'm doing > something dumb, but including figures in OzTeX is not as straight-forward > as it might be, IMHO. Hmm. I have not tried MacDraw II or Canvas, but here is how I included PostScript produced from some MS Word tables using the command-f trick. It turned out in those cases that the figures were being placed too high (in one case it was so high it was off the page). (I had *assumed* that this was a problem specific to the particular postscript files I had -- perhaps it's not?) OzTeX lets you supply arbitrary PostScript code after the file name in the \special command. So I put in something like \special{filename.ps 0 -250 translate} which caused the figure to be shifted 0 points horizontally and -300 points vertically, thus lowering it to the proper position. You're right that this is not as straight-forward as it might be; TeXtures is easier. Mike -- Mike Hucka | Internet: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu University of Michigan AI Lab | 1101 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109