[comp.text.tex] Including figures in slitex

jmn@power.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) (03/09/91)

I've been trying to include figures in slitex, similarly to how I include
them in latex. I use xfig to generate them, transfig -L epic to convert them
to tex, and then with to include them in my slitex files. Unfortunately
problems crop up.

1. Slitex does not appear to have a \begin{figure} environment like latex-
is there some way I can add one? (I know almost nothing about tex macros and
such). Maybe someone out there has done  it already?

2. If I do:
	\begin{center}
	\input{fig/window}
	\end{center}
to include my figure slitex has a tendency to try to barf on any text in the
figure (I can keep pressing return and it will get through it alright- but
the text will come out at some default font size it seems). Presumably this
is related to problem 1.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, I will summarize and post.
mark

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spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/11/91)

In article <jmn.668461592@power.Berkeley.EDU> jmn@power.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) writes:

   1. Slitex does not appear to have a \begin{figure} environment like latex-
   is there some way I can add one? (I know almost nothing about tex macros and
   such). Maybe someone out there has done  it already?
it would hardly make sense. how can you have `floating figures' on
slides?

	   \begin{center}
	   \input{fig/window}
	   \end{center}
how about just
 	   \input{fig/window}
?

or do you mean that your file says \begin{figure} in it? in which
case 

\newenvironment{figure}{}{}

sebastian
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