[OS X TeX] XY Plots :: Addendum

[Ross Moore]

Hi Jon,

On 15/06/2004, at 1:16 AM, Jon Guyer wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> Just a few day ago I found PyX (http://pyx.sourceforge.net/). It is a 
>> graphing package written in python, which uses LaTeX for the 
>> labelling. Reminds me of MetaPost, without the limitations (it also 
>> acts like an object oriented interface to PostScript). Worth a look, 
>> although it most certainly isn't graphical.
>
> That looks neat.  I'm working on a Python-based modeling package right 
> now and we'll definitely have to look into PyX for output.
>
> Several months ago I put together a rudimentary tool for doing Xy-Pic 
> labels within Igor Pro. If there were much interest, I could polish it 
> up a bit and make it available.

Yes, please.
The Xy-pic macro package allows you to add labels in a semi-intuitive
way to any graphic that can be imported into a (La)TeX document.

There will never be font problems introduced this way,
since you will be using the same fonts as in the main document.


The WaRMreader (http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/WARM/) technique
was developed precisely to bypass font problems in graphics created
using Adobe Illustrator.  It is not limited to Illustrator graphics,
and the website gives some examples from Mathematica.


The  WarmFigtoPDF  application (see the mac-tex website associated
with this list -- address below) is a semi-automated way to augment
PDF graphics with Xy-pic labels using the WaRMreader technique.


Would you please copy any further discussion on use of Xy-pic
for labelling also to the mailing list:   xypic at tug.org.



Cheers,

	Ross

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