[OS X TeX] LaTeX Books

[Luis Sequeira]

>Paulo Ferreira wrote:
>
>>  BUT, there is a box called "The LaTeX Companions, Revised Set" that has
>>  both books plus "The LaTeX Graphics Companion" and "The Latex Web
>>  Companion",
>>  in a total of four LaTeX books.
>
>I have "both books" and I do all my graphics in Intaglio, save them as
>pdf and "include" them. Am I missing something and should I buy "The
>LaTeX Graphics Companion"?
>
>Thanks and regards
>--schremmer

There is no problem with your workflow. However, some people do 
prefer to deal with some, or most, graphics from within LaTeX, using 
tools like pstricks, xy-pic, metapost. I write lots of graphics for 
my teaching work and use pstricks and related packages for precise 
mathematical drawing (and perfect integration with LaTeX - think 
fonts in graphics labels, for instance). I wouldn't trade that for 
anything else. I own a copy "The LaTeX Graphics Companion", which has 
a whole chapter on pstricks, but I rely mostly on the pstricks 
manual, which, as a matter of fact, is included in Gerben's 
distribution, so is there already on my (and on your) mac.

Luis Sequeira
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