Re: Latex PGF plugin

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 10:53 +0100, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> momomaniac wrote:
> > Lars Clausen wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > I think that's a really bad idea.  It means that all but the most
> > > trivial texts will look strange.  The Right Way, of course, is to make
> > > it selectable, but until then the various TeX-directed exports should at
> > > least agree on enscaping:  See message
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2005-December/msg00002.html.
> > >  
> > OK, I now made a version with escaped text, like in pstricks, but with 
> > some latex language fixed.
> > patch is here: http://home.arcor.de/kirmse/dia/escapedText.patch
> >
> > However I will keep using the unescaped version for myself, since I just 
> > want dia to place the latex code at the right coordinates. But I can 
> > conceive, that it is better to escape for a release.
>
> I don't know about either of these formats, but: Would it be "expensive"
> to have two export filters, one with escaped text and one with unescaped?

That's possible, but I don't think it's a question of export, but of
diagram design.  After all, all the tex formats would want to do that
same, and you'd write you diagram with the escaping setting in mind.

> I assume that it's not possible to give an option to an export filter.
> Right?

It is not impossible, but it's currently a PITA to do it.  PNG export
(libart) has options, but I think it'd be as much work to add options to
another filter as to make a generic option system.

-Lars

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