[comp.text.tex] Xpic and Latex

bijal@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Bijal Shah) (01/10/91)

	Hi Folks.
		I use xpic to creat diagrams and things.  I would like to
	able to include these diagrams in a latex document.  I can save
	to Psotscript or xpic format, Postscript is not great because I
	only have HP Laserjets available to me.  (If I include postscript
	in the latex document, I think I have to convert the dvi file to
	postscript too, and print on a postscript printer).  So I save
	to xpic format.  Now, there is a program called x2latex, but
	this does to carry through font styles and sizes to the latex file
	generated.  I also have a program called x2tpic.  I think that this
	DOES carry through the font styles.  Problem is that I get a "tpic"
	format file.
		Now what is tpic?  I've been told that it is to latex as
	"pic" is to troff.  If so where can I get it?  If not, does anyone
	know of a way to get diagrams into latex, preserving font styles
	etc.
		Thank you in advance.

						BJ

beck@bongo.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) (01/10/91)

In discussing the problem of getting figures generated using xpic
into LaTeX documents, bijal@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Bijal Shah) writes:

>		Now what is tpic?  I've been told that it is to latex as
>	"pic" is to troff.  If so where can I get it?  If not, does anyone
>	know of a way to get diagrams into latex, preserving font styles
>	etc.

Here's an alternative to using tpic.  You can get pic output from xpic, 
and then use pic2fig to convert it to Fig code format and use TransFig
to get it into a LaTeX document.

Even better would be if someone wrote a direct xpic-to-fig conversion program.
Or make your like easier: use xfig instead of xpic!
/micah

bijal@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Bijal Shah) (01/10/91)

	But does  Transfig carry through the font styles into the LaTeX
	document.  This is what I am really after.

						Bijal

bijal@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Bijal Shah) (01/10/91)

	(Sorry to waste bandwidth but...)

	And anyway, I am looking to confirm that tpic will do the job for
	me, and where I can get tpic (either as source or HP300 binary)

						Bijal