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From: bijal@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Bijal Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Xpic and Latex
Message-ID: <61270001@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 17:38:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard CCG-PWD, UK.
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	Hi Folks.
		I use xpic to creat diagrams and things.  I would like to
	able to include these diagrams in a latex document.  I can save
	to Psotscript or xpic format, Postscript is not great because I
	only have HP Laserjets available to me.  (If I include postscript
	in the latex document, I think I have to convert the dvi file to
	postscript too, and print on a postscript printer).  So I save
	to xpic format.  Now, there is a program called x2latex, but
	this does to carry through font styles and sizes to the latex file
	generated.  I also have a program called x2tpic.  I think that this
	DOES carry through the font styles.  Problem is that I get a "tpic"
	format file.
		Now what is tpic?  I've been told that it is to latex as
	"pic" is to troff.  If so where can I get it?  If not, does anyone
	know of a way to get diagrams into latex, preserving font styles
	etc.
		Thank you in advance.

						BJ