[R] Font settings in xfig

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Scionforbai wrote:
>> Is there a reason you are going through this route to get figures
>> into LaTeX instead of using postscript (or PDF for pdflatex)?
> 
> To have LaTeX-formatted text printed onto your pdf figures, to include
> in LaTeX documents.
> 
> R cannot output 'special' text in xfig. You need to post-process the
> .fig file, according to the fig format
> (http://www.xfig.org/userman/fig-format.html), replacing, on lines
> starting with '4', the correct values for font and font_flags. Using
> awk (assuming you work on Linux) this is straightforward :
> 
> awk '$1==4{$6=0;$9=2}{print}' R_FILE.fig > OUT.fig
> 
> Then, in order to obtain a pdf figure with LaTeX-formatted text, you
> need a simple driver.tex:
> 
> driver.tex :
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{epsfig}
> \usepackage{color} %(note: you might not might not need to do this)
> \begin{document}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \input{FILE.pstex_t}
> \end{document}
> 
> Now you can go through the compilation:
> 
> fig2dev -L pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex
> fig2dev -L pstex_t -p OUT.pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex_t
> sed s/FILE/"OUT"/ driver.tex > ./OUT.tex
> latex OUT.tex
> dvips -E OUT.dvi -o OUT.eps
> epstopdf OUT.eps
> 
> Of course you need R to write the correct Latex math strings (like $\sigma^2$).
> Hope this helps,
> 
> scionforbai
> 

I asked because I have found the plotmath capabilities in R to be
sufficient for LaTeXish text on plots.  Then there are no
intermediate steps.  It didn't seem that from the OP that
anything incredibly complex was being attempted.


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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
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