Re: creating latex macro from custom shapes

[Nathan Rollins <nhr2 ee byu edu>]

Thank you for responding.  Due to time constraints, I wan't able to debug 
this issue.  I was however pleasantly suprised at the quality of the *.eps 
files that dia exports.  The *.eps files that some other programs create 
are poor quality diagrams.  Dia's *.eps files were good enough to use with 
latex - even when shrunk.  

Dia does come with a number of useful objects, however they are not useful 
under many circumstances because they cannot be rotated.  This is why I 
created many of my own shapes (such as the OR and XOR gates).  I applaud 
dia's ability to create really useful shapes in this way!

Nathan Rollins.

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Nathan Rollins wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:59:55 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: Nathan Rollins <nhr2 ee byu edu>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: creating latex macro from custom shapes
> >
> >
> > Hey,
>
> Virus crapflood at the moment, other may not have seen your message so
> please be patient and maybe ask again later or let us know if you make any
> progress yourself.
>
> At this point I am happy to accept just about any tightening of the
> mailing list policies which will help reduce this crapflood and any future
> Microsoft Negligence we need to LookOut for.
>
> I only know the basics of LaTeX myself so I am unable to offer any advice.
>
> > I'm trying to create latex macros from my dia diagrams.  In my diagrams I
> > use a lot of shapes I created myself.  Among these shapes I created are OR
> > and XOR gates.  When I try to run latex on the macro I export from dia,
> > latex coughs on the OR and XOR gates.  This is the error it gives:
>
> However I am interested by the fact that your created you own OR and XOR
> gates rather than the ones included with Dia.
>
> It would be helpful if you could elaborate on the differences between your
> version and the ones we ship.  Ideally if your changes would be of general
> interest and you could provide patches it might be worthwile to
> incorporate your changes.
>
> >     <svg:path style="stroke-width: 1.0; stroke: #000000" d="M 3.5 2.0 C
> > 6.5,5.0 3.5,7.0 3.5,7.0"/>
>
> All I can suggest is to look at the other shapes that use svg:path and
> hack and slash (aka cut and paste) from them.  I know the old advice of
> 'start with something that works and go from there' is not much help but
> it works and it the best I can manage at the moment.
>
> > Has anyone come across this problem before?  Does anyone know how I might
> > overcome this issue?  I'd REALLY like to be able to import my tex macros.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
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