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From: vaisey@fornax.UUCP (Jacques Vaisey)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Plain TeX: xfig -> transfig -> pictex -> TeX? How?
Message-ID: <2270@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:28:59 GMT
Reply-To: vaisey@cs.sfu.ca (Jacques Vaisey)
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Howdy,

I want to use convert a drawing done with xfig to pictex macros
that can then be included in a Plain TeX document. The only package
that I know for doing this is transfig; however, transfig
assumes that the user is formatting his/her document with LateX
and uses "picture environment" commands.

Does anyone know of a filter that can convert the LaTeX commands into ones
understandable by Plain TeX?  Alternatively, are there any fig->pictex
filters out there that don't assume you are using LaTeX?

Thanks,

**> jacques

Jacques Vaisey              |     email -> vaisey@cs.sfu.ca
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