Re: PGF export

[Cong-Kien DANG <kiendc gmail com>]

Thank Moritz for your answer
I have the idea of setting du because, I always to modify this thing  
manually for scaling my big diagram fit into a4 page. Moreover, the  
text size properties has no influence to the exported tex file so each  
time want to scale a big diagram I have to do 2 things manually
- Set size of font to small or tiny
- change the du
Anyone has idea to simplify this procedure
Anyway, I really want to continue Moritz's work. We can expand this  
work to show mathematical function graph like an additional feature of  
Dia.
Best regards
Kien
On 14-Dec-08, at 3:59 PM, momo wrote:

> Hi Kien,
>
> I wrote that export plugin a long time ago and I find it quite cool  
> that you are using it again.
>
> It's been a while, so I don't remember very well the rationale for  
> some design decisions.
>
> I like that escape sequence for tex $...$, thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't remember why all text is left aligned, maybe  
> it was just left out in the first version.
>
> For the unitlength stuff, I included this setting du=15/unitlength  
> at the very beginning to be able to easily scale the diagram  
> manually in the tex source if things are not displayed nicely. I  
> chose 15/unitlength-to get something with a useable size right at  
> the beginning, for most cases (?)
> A dialog would be a great thing, however I don't know if there is  
> any global philosophy for dia interfaces and if an extra export  
> dialog matches this philosophy. An other way to go would be to  
> introduce a coupling with page settings and dpi settings (just an  
> idea).
>
> So 2 questions for me (to the great masters of dia):
> -is it a good idea to introduce a dialog for the scaling of the  
> exported file?
> -is it possible to couple it with a page resolution setting in print  
> options???
>
> best regards, Moritz
>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:43:23 +0100, Cong Kien Dang  
> <kiendc gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I ve tried modify a litle in PGF export plugins
> > - in tex_escaps_string. I changed in such a way that it could keep  
> > the
> > mathematical formula in the text like $\alpha \leq \beta$. It's done.
> > - In draw_string(), I would like to modify the aligment but it do  
> > nothing, I
> > don't know why every text is exported with anchor=WEST
> > - I would lke to add a dialog to set some parameter of exporting  
> > like the
> > variable du (by default it is always 15/unitlength, we may want to
> > 10/unitlength for example) or scale ...
> > Anyone know to do it
> > Thank
> > Kien
>
>
>
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