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From: beck@CS.Cornell.EDU (Micah Beck)
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Subject: Re: What's with xifg ?
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nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:


>Okay,

>I drew a picture with xfig, while the latex option is was on.
>I saved it in a file called fig.fig
>Did fig2dev -L pio fig.fig > fig.pic
>and
>tpic fig.pic.

>This gave me a fig.tex file.

>I used the command \input{fig}\centerline{\box\graph}
>in between a \begin{figure} \end{figure} environment.

>Latex is giving me the following error message:

>(fig1.tex
>! Undefined control sequence.
><argument> ...2.063in\lower 1.510in\hbox to0pt{\s 
>                                                  11\fR 0\fP \hss }

The problem here is the use of the "-L pic" option to fig2dev, which
includes troff-style font specifiers in text objects.  To get tpic/LaTeX
compatible output, use "-L tpic".

Micah Beck
Cornell CS Dept.