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MacOSX-TeX Digest #174 - Thursday, December 6, 2001
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Claus Gerhardt"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Radhakrishnan CV"
Re: Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
by "david craig"
Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
by "david craig"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
by "Gus Gollings"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
by "Radhakrishnan CV"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Maarten Sneep"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Frank STENGEL"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: paths
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
by "William Adams"
LyX (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: paths)
by "William Adams"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Nick Matsakis"
File Types and Creators
by "Holger Frauenrath"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "William Adams"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Arun Mangalam"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] File Types and Creators
by "Benji Fisher"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] File Types and Creators
by "Holger Frauenrath"
Petition for Matlab on Mac OS X
by
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Nick Matsakis"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Gerben Wierda"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
by "Ross Moore"
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Claus Gerhardt"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:35:02 +0100
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>So, I'm curious whether anyone knows a good way to get a single TeX
>equation as a piece of embedded PDF? I'm envisioning a package that =
works
>like this:
>
>\usepackage{pdfout}
>\include{allmywackytexmacros.tex}
>
>\begin{document}
>
>\begin{pdfout}{exp1.pdf}
>\[ 1+1 =3D3D 2 \]
>\end{pdfout}
>
>\begin{pdfout}{exp2.pdf}
>\[ A =3D3D \pi \cdot r^2\]
>\end{pdfout}
>
\end{document}
Let me add some thoughts to my first mail to this problem: One can
produce arbitrary many formulas in one latex document, e.g.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[metapost]{mfpic}
\opengraphsfile{myname}
\begin{document}
\begin{mfpic}[20]{0}{4}{0}{4}
%the numbers are arbitrary but reasonable in the present context.
\tlabel(0,0){ $\int_a^bf(x) dx$ }
\end{mfpic}
\medskip
\begin{mfpic}[20]{0}{4}{0}{4}
%the numbers are arbitrary but reasonable in the present context.
\tlabel(0,0){ $\sin\pi =3D3D0$ }
\end{mfpic}
%etc, preferably separated by \medskip
\closegraphsfile
\end{document}
After the first run of the document a file myname.mp is created which
one has to transform via the terminal using the command
mpost myname
After the second run of the document the file myname.pdf contains all
formulas. One can then open this file with Adobe Illustrator, copy
each formula separately, and save each of the formulas as an .eps
file which can either be used independently or can be transformed
with epstopdf to an embedded pdf file that can be read in via an
\includegraphics command.
Claus
>
--
Claus Gerhardt
Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
Homepage: http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
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Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX ->
EPDF?
So, I'm curious whether anyone knows a
good way to get a single TeX
equation as a piece of embedded PDF? I'm envisioning a package
that works
like this:
\usepackage{pdfout}
\include{allmywackytexmacros.tex}
\begin{document}
\begin{pdfout}{exp1.pdf}
\[ 1+1 =3D3D 2 \]
\end{pdfout}
\begin{pdfout}{exp2.pdf}
\[ A =3D3D \pi \cdot r^2\]
\end{pdfout}
\end{document}
Let me add some thoughts to my first mail to this problem: One
can produce arbitrary many formulas in one latex
document, e.g.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[metapost]{mfpic}
\opengraphsfile{myname}
\begin{document}
\begin{mfpic}[20]{0}{4}{0}{4}
%the numbers are arbitrary but reasonable in the present
context.
\tlabel(0,0){ $\int_a^bf(x) dx$ }
\end{mfpic}
\medskip
\begin{mfpic}[20]{0}{4}{0}{4}
%the numbers are arbitrary but reasonable in the present
context.
\tlabel(0,0){ $\sin\pi =3D3D0$ }
\end{mfpic}
%etc, preferably separated by \medskip
\closegraphsfile
\end{document}
After the first run of the document a file myname.mp is
created which one has to transform via the terminal using the
command
mpost myname
After the second run of the document the file myname.pdf
contains all formulas. One can then open this file with Adobe
Illustrator, copy each formula separately, and save each of the
formulas as an .eps file which can either be used independently or can
be transformed with epstopdf to an embedded pdf file that can be read
in via an \includegraphics command.
Claus
--
Claus Gerhardt
Institut f=3DFCr Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit=3DE4t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
Homepage: http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Radhakrishnan CV"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:28:58 +0530 (IST)
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 at 17:54, Nick Matsakis wrote:
So, I'm curious whether anyone knows a good way to get a
single TeX equation as a piece of embedded PDF? I'm
envisioning a package that works like this:
Yes, pdftricks.sty (available at CTAN) does this for you. pdftricks
is meant for using pstricks code in pdftex documents. Your source
should be modified in the following manner:
\usepackage[shell]{pdftricks} % if you have shell escape enabled
or
\usepackage[noshell]{pdftricks} % if you dont have shell escape
\begin{psinputs}
\include{allmywackytexmacros.tex}
\end{psinputs}
\begin{document}
\begin{pdfpic}
\[ 1+1 =3D 2 \]
\end{pdfpic}
\begin{pdfpic}
\[ A =3D \pi \cdot r^2\]
\end{pdfpic}
\end{document}
If you have shell escape facility enabled, single run of pdflatex
will result in as many number of small pdf's as you expected. If you
dont have shell escape, you need to run the pst2pdf shell script at
the end of the pdflatex job which will do the job of making
different pdf's.
Running pdftex on the output would create two files in the
directory, exp1.pdf and exp2.pdf, each containing the
appropriate equations. Does this make sense? This would be
useful because the resulting files could be dragged into
Omnigraffle or Powerpoint X, allowing one to have nicely
typeset equations in posters and presentations.
But why should you go for this round about way of making a
presentation while pdfTeX itself could be used to make
presentations. Pdfscreen.sty coupled with TeXpower or PPower4 helps
you to make presentations that has page transition effects,
incremental builds etc.
--
Radhakrishnan
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Subject: Re: Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
From: "david craig"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:39:52 -0500 (EST)
I'm not sure what happened -- I haven't received the digest for a couple
of days (until I got two today), and neither of them contained my
original message, nor any replies, if there were any. Since the help
message for this list makes no mention of an archive, ummm .... WERE
there any replies? If so, I'd really appreciate it if someone would
tell me what they were.
Thanks,
David Craig
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Subject: Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
From: "david craig"
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:30:14 -0500 (EST)
I believe it was on this list -- quite recently, in fact -- that someone
suggested
as a nice online TeX tutorial. Trouble is, all of the linked pdf files
appear to be missing. I e-mailed the contact given on the page about a
week ago, but haven't heard back, and the links are still all broken.
If the person who posted the link is still reading -- do you have any
connections to this site that might help?
David Craig
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
From: "Gus Gollings"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:51:21 +1100
The list doesn't seem to have gotten your post nor any replies!
On 6/12/01 4:39 PM, "david craig" wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what happened -- I haven't received the digest for a couple
> of days (until I got two today), and neither of them contained my
> original message, nor any replies, if there were any. Since the help
> message for this list makes no mention of an archive, ummm .... WERE
> there any replies? If so, I'd really appreciate it if someone would
> tell me what they were.
>
> Thanks,
> David Craig
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
From: "Radhakrishnan CV"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:29:39 +0530 (IST)
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 16:30, david craig wrote:
I believe it was on this list -- quite recently, in fact --
that someone suggested
as a nice online TeX tutorial. Trouble is, all of the linked
pdf files appear to be missing. I e-mailed the contact given
on the page about a week ago, but haven't heard back, and the
links are still all broken. If the person who posted the link
is still reading -- do you have any connections to this site
that might help?
I'm sorry, I too discovered lately that the links are broken. But
you can get all the screen and print version pdf's from:
http://www.river-valley.com/tug/tutorial/
and the TeX sources and supporting packages from:
http://www.river-valley.com/tug/tutorial/src/
--
Radhakrishnan
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Maarten Sneep"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:03:41 +0100 (CET)
Hi all,
On 06-Dec-01 Claus Gerhardt wrote:
# >So, I'm curious whether anyone knows a good way to get a single TeX
# >equation as a piece of embedded PDF? I'm envisioning a package that =
works
[snip]
# Let me add some thoughts to my first mail to this problem: One can
# produce arbitrary many formulas in one latex document, e.g.
#
[snip]
#
# After the first run of the document a file myname.mp is created which
# one has to transform via the terminal using the command
#
# mpost myname
#
# After the second run of the document the file myname.pdf contains all
# formulas. One can then open this file with Adobe Illustrator, copy
# each formula separately, and save each of the formulas as an .eps
# file which can either be used independently or can be transformed
# with epstopdf to an embedded pdf file that can be read in via an
# \includegraphics command.
The use of Illustator is a bit tricky here: I don't have that program.
Here's what I do, YMMV.
1) Create a latex file for each formula, e.g.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%% your style files, amsmath comes to mind
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
2 + 2 =3D 5 \qquad\text{G. Orwell, 1984}
\end{equation
\end{document}
2) run file through normal latex
3) run dvi through dvips, with the following options:
dvips -Ppdf -E -o formula.eps formula.dvi
4) run eps-file through the epstopdf script.
epstopdf formula.eps
There you have it. The drawbacks are: only one formula per file, needs to =
use
the cmd-line. Advantage: no need for illustator.
Of course I assume you have teTeX installed and GhostScript. If you have =
other
tools, you may want to use those. If someone knows a way of skipping the =
latex
dvips step (i.e. an option for pdflatex to generate epdf directly, I'd =
like to
hear.
Maarten Sneep
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
It's better to have something to remember than nothing to regret...
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Maarten Sneep
Atomic- and Laser Physics group
vrije Universiteit, amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Frank STENGEL"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:07:54 +0000
I am working with a somehow old version of TeXShop's teTeX distribution =
and
OSX.0.4, so I hope that what I am saying does still apply. Bash me if I'm
hopelessly out of date... So when Radhakrishnan CV wrote:
[snip]
> Yes, pdftricks.sty (available at CTAN) does this for you. pdftricks
> is meant for using pstricks code in pdftex documents. Your source
[snap]
I say:
Works, sort of that is: the script has to be slightly rewritten to
accomodate for the fact that bash is not the standard shell that comes =
with
OSX. dvips has also to be coaxed into understanding that one wants the =
type
1 fonts (like TeXShop does when invoking it) A tentative version for it
would be:
[start of script pst2pdf.OSX, beware of line endings...]
#! /bin/sh
# pst2pdf.OSX
# PSTricks 2 PDF converter :
# Usage: "pst2pdf.OSX" produces PDF files for all files of the form
*-fig*.tex
# "pst2pdf.OSX " only considers FILE-fig.tex
# It removes intermediary files at the end.
FILE=3D$1
if [ -z ${FILE} ]; then
FIGURES=3D`ls *-fig*.tex`;
else
FIGURES=3D`ls -- ${FILE}-fig*.tex`;
fi
for f in ${FIGURES} ; do
fig=3D`basename ${f} .tex`
latex ${fig}
dvips -R -u +psfonts.map -u +pdftex.map -u +Ttbbold.map -E -o ${fig}.eps
${fig}
epstopdf ${fig}.eps
rm ${fig}.eps ${fig}.dvi ${fig}.log ${fig}.aux
done
[end of script]
Have fun!
--
Frank STENGEL (fstengel@nordnet.fr)
(fstengel@wanadoo.net.ma)
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: paths
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:05:35 +0100
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 11:55 , David R. Morrison wrote:
>> As far as I know, the only distribution that has ever conflicted with
>> my
>> distribution is fink, because it forces itself at the start of the
>> path.
>
> And as pointed out in the previous message, the latest version of fink
> no
> longer does this, because it inserts
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>
> prior to the fink paths (when the system-tetex fink package is
> installed).
Which is good.
That does not solve the conflict between fink an /usr/local/bin, which
is the default location for ghostscript and thus also the location where
my ghostscript is installed. Maybe, David, a system-gs package would be
helpful as well. I have had people contacting me to ask how they could
get fink to accept the gs I ship as they wanted lyx (whatever that is)
and fink says it requires gs for that. But they do not want the fink gs
as it conflicts with Apple's Quartz engine in certain cases.
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Online Tutorials for LaTeX?
From: "William Adams"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500
I'm also working on a sort-of tutorial / formatting example (The
Confederate Soldier's Pocket Manual of Devotions, a gift for my father)
using documentclass{book}.
I'm almost done on the first pass, was thinking I'd post it to
comp.text.tex for commentary / improvement, and will encode all the
commentary as comments in the source file. Will mention that posting
here for those who don't do usenet.
William
(and after that it's on to up-dating the FontName docs....)
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: LyX (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: paths)
From: "William Adams"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:57:34 -0500
Gerben said:
>...I have had people contacting me to ask how they could
>get fink to accept the gs I ship as they wanted lyx (whatever that is)
>and fink says it requires gs for that....
LyX is a ``what you see is what you mean'' document processor which uses
LaTeX as its back-end.
Neat thing, and it'd be nice to see it running natively on Mac OS X (say
having been ported to GNUstep).
www.lyx.org for those who're interested.
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Nick Matsakis"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:52:52 -0500 (EST)
> What one wants is for TeXShop.app to provide a Service, ``TeX eq ->
> EPDF'', so that one could then, within OmniGraffle, type the desired
> equation (say \magstep2$1+1=3D2$), select it, choose the Service and =
then
> get in situ the ``epdf''---that's how it works in NeXTstep, and I can't
> think of a more efficient fashion to get this sort of thing done....
Well, this would definitely be useful and I would use such a feature.
However, one of the powers of LaTeX comes from piling on the macros... So,
this would only really work with vanilla equations, UNLESS you had an
additional service which was "TeX -> EPDF in environment..." where you
could specify a file that had the declarations. Even better _still_ would
be to create an object that could be embedded into graphic apps that would
allow you to edit the equation in place.
Nick Matsakis
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Subject: File Types and Creators
From: "Holger Frauenrath"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:16:58 -0600
Hi.
Since I opened the editor Pepper once, all (at least a lot) of my files of
the file type TEXT have the Pepper creator code (they had been previously
created with Alpha, BBEdit or TeXShop; they have different extensions such
as .tex, .txt, .html), which just annoys me.
Apparently, there must be a system-wide preference or something like that
which defines which app to open files of a certain file type with. Is this
correct? Can someone point me to where I can readjust this?
Slightly off-topic, but on a related matter: John Syracusa, who has =
written
some very good articles on arstechnica.com on MacOS X in general, and, =
more
specifically, on metadata such as file types/creators, has a proposal and =
a
petition on how the MacOS should handle metadata and file extensions in =
the
future (and how it should not). For those who are interested:
Holger
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "William Adams"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:18:52 -0500
I said:
> > What one wants is for TeXShop.app to provide a Service, ``TeX eq ->
> > EPDF'', so that one could then, within OmniGraffle, type the desired
> > equation (say \magstep2$1+1=3D2$), select it, choose the Service and =
then
> > get in situ the ``epdf''---that's how it works in NeXTstep, and I =
can't
> > think of a more efficient fashion to get this sort of thing done....
>
and Nick replied:
>
> Well, this would definitely be useful and I would use such a feature.
> However, one of the powers of LaTeX comes from piling on the macros... =
So,
> this would only really work with vanilla equations, UNLESS you had an
> additional service which was "TeX -> EPDF in environment..." where you
> could specify a file that had the declarations. Even better _still_ =
would
> be to create an object that could be embedded into graphic apps that =
would
> allow you to edit the equation in place.
>
Yes, adding macros / formats would be a good thing. My math is pretty
limited though, so I've not experimented with that sort of thing---I'm
sure the worst case scenario in NeXTstep would be one'd have to build a
(default) format using initex with the macros / environment on wanted
active, or just include an input instruction at the beginning of the eq
source.
Altys Virtuoso won't replace a text object with a graphic when using
such a Service with selected text, so what I do there is have a separate
layer ``Equation-source'' which I send to the background and refer to as
necessary, so that's not been an issue for me---worst case here would be
to clone the text before activating the Service for drawing / layout
programs. Word processors / text editors would kinda be SOL.....
Ideally, I guess one'd want to tag the .pdf, or use an XML-based or
other taggable graphic format (SVG, maybe PNG) which would allow one to
store the source and refer back to it later.
William
--
William Adams, publishing specialist
ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
http://www.atlis.com
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Arun Mangalam"
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:31:10 -0500
Hello all,
If you have ConTeXt installed, having equations in a separate small
cropped pdf is as simple as ConTeXt-ing the following [TeXShop has
support for ConTeXt]:
\starttext
\startTEXpage[scale=3D3000,offset=3D5pt]
$ x^2 + \sum_{i=3D4}^{n}i $
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
ConTeXt does many other awesome things [especially with MetaPost]. It is
a very well organized, powerful [free] package for professional
typesetting, that continues to grow. ConTeXt is expecially integrated
with pdf's, from presentations to regular screen/printed documents...
- Arun
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] File Types and Creators
From: "Benji Fisher"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:34:55 -0500
Holger Frauenrath wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Since I opened the editor Pepper once, all (at least a lot) of my files =
of
> the file type TEXT have the Pepper creator code (they had been =
previously
> created with Alpha, BBEdit or TeXShop; they have different extensions =
such
> as .tex, .txt, .html), which just annoys me.
>
> Apparently, there must be a system-wide preference or something like =
that
> which defines which app to open files of a certain file type with. Is =
this
> correct? Can someone point me to where I can readjust this?
[snip]
Find the file in Finder, and choose "Show Info" from the File menu. =
(If
you are a keyboard junkie, like me, use Cmd-I.) Choose "Open with
application" from the pull-down list, and there is an option to use your
favorite application for all files having the same extension.
HTH --Benji Fisher
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] File Types and Creators
From: "Holger Frauenrath"
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:40:57 +0000
on 12/6/01 5:34 PM, Benji Fisher at benji@e-math.AMS.org wrote:
> Find the file in Finder, and choose "Show Info" from the File menu. (If
> you are a keyboard junkie, like me, use Cmd-I.) Choose "Open with
> application" from the pull-down list, and there is an option to use your
> favorite application for all files having the same extension.
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
Thanks. That will help, I hope. However: I actually do NOT want to open =
ALL
files with a certain extension (say html) in one app, but all files of one
file type (say text) ... these need not coincide ...
Just out of interest: where do I find the preference file or whatever for
this system-wide behaviour.
Holger
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Nick Matsakis"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:19:20 -0500 (EST)
I'm only getthing the digest version of this list, so I'm sorry if this
has been addressed somehow. Ross Moore's solution works very well for
what I wanted to do. I've distilled it down a bit more and made it into
the resulting LaTeX macro, which works fine with pdflatex, as far as I can
tell. Furthermore, the PDF it produces is "transparent" in the
background, which means that I can bring the equations into Omnigraffle
and put them in colored boxes!
So far, it only seems to work right the first time it is called, and I
can't figure out why. This is ok because I really want one equation per
file, since Omnigraffle (and presumably most graphics programs) can only
embed the first page.
Now, does anyone know how to get the \pdfinfo command to work properly? I
think it would be _really cool_ if the PDF subject was the original tex
for the equation.
Regards,
Nick Matsakis
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% Note, the argument to this macro requires latex that can be formatted in
% a horizontal box. Thus, no "displaymath". If you want display style
% math, write your argument like "$\displaystyle 1 + 1 =3D 2$"
\newcommand*{\shipoutpdf}[1]{
\newpage
\pdfinfo{/Subject (#1)}
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{0cm}
\setbox0=3D\vbox{\kern -1truein
\hbox{\kern -1truein #1 \kern 1truein}%
\kern1truein}%
\dimen0\ht0
\advance\dimen0\dp0
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\dimen0}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\wd0}
\shipout\box0
}
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Gerben Wierda"
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:54:20 +0100
> If you have ConTeXt installed, having equations in a separate small
> cropped pdf is as simple as ConTeXt-ing the following [TeXShop has
> support for ConTeXt]:
>
> \starttext
> \startTEXpage[scale=3D3000,offset=3D5pt]
> $ x^2 + \sum_{i=3D4}^{n}i $
> \stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
>
>
> ConTeXt does many other awesome things [especially with MetaPost]. It
> is a very well organized, powerful [free] package for professional
> typesetting, that continues to grow. ConTeXt is expecially integrated
> with pdf's, from presentations to regular screen/printed documents...
Yes, I have also seen impressive results form ConTeXt, that is why I
have added it as a format to be created by default to my teTeX
distribution. However, I haven't found a good tutorial for its use, for
example, how do you process that piece you type above? It is not like
other tex stuff, where you load a format, say
pdfetex &cont-uk foo.tex
because that just writes a dvi file.
G
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] TEX -> EPDF?
From: "Ross Moore"
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:34:38 +1100 (EST)
>
> So far, it only seems to work right the first time it is called, and I
The \newpage is irrelevant, and you should probably suppress the
blank spaces created from the end of lines, after a '}'.
e.g. \setlength{\parindent}{0cm}%
^---- suppresses end-of-line token
> can't figure out why. This is ok because I really want one equation per
> file, since Omnigraffle (and presumably most graphics programs) can only
> embed the first page.
> Now, does anyone know how to get the \pdfinfo command to work properly? =
I
What do you find is going wrong ?
I'd guess that \pdfinfo{/Subject (#1)} is rather dangerous,
as any active tokens within the #1 would not expand into the text
of their name.
Instead, you'll need something more intricate, such as:
{\let\zz\catcode
\zz`m=3D12 \zz`a=3D12 \zz`c=3D12 \zz`r=3D12 \zz`o=3D12
% avoid the letters m a c r o in the name of this next macro
\gdef\stipening macro:->#1@@!@@{#1}
}
\def\shipoutpdf#1{%
\bgroup \def\tmp{#1}%
\edef\tmpinfo{/Subject (\expandafter\stipening\meaning\tmp@@!@@)}%
% \show\tmpinfo
\expandafter\pdfinfo\expandafter{\tmpinfo}%
\egroup
.... other stuff here ....
}
Test: \shipoutpdf{$ \alpha^2 + \beta^2 =3D \gamma^2 $}
> think it would be _really cool_ if the PDF subject was the original tex
> for the equation.
Try the above.
Cheers,
Ross Moore
> Regards,
>
> Nick Matsakis
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> % Note, the argument to this macro requires latex that can be formatted =
in
> % a horizontal box. Thus, no "displaymath". If you want display style
> % math, write your argument like "$\displaystyle 1 + 1 =3D 2$"
> \newcommand*{\shipoutpdf}[1]{
> \newpage
> \pdfinfo{/Subject (#1)}
> \setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
> \setlength{\leftmargin}{0cm}
> \setbox0=3D\vbox{\kern -1truein
> \hbox{\kern -1truein #1 \kern 1truein}%
> \kern1truein}%
> \dimen0\ht0
> \advance\dimen0\dp0
> \setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\dimen0}
> \setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\wd0}
> \shipout\box0
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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