Re: Accents in postscript graphs

[Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell@virginia.edu>]

Gerald,



The general solution is to use psfrag in LaTeX.  I added a little

function in the Hmisc library recently that saves just a bit of

typing.  Here is an example where I use math mode for axis labels

and main title.



tex  <-  function(string, lref='c', psref='c', scale=1, srt=0) 

  paste('\\tex[',lref,'][',psref,'][',

        format(scale),'][',format(srt),']{',string,'}',sep='')



setps(psfrag, toplines=1)

x <- seq(0,15,length=100)

plot(x, dchisq(x, 5), xlab=tex('$x$'),

        ylab=tex('$f(x)$'), type='l')

title(tex('Density Function of the $\\chi_{5}^{2}$ Distribution'))

dev.off()    



The Hmisc setps function uses nice defaults for making small postscript

graphs for reports and books.



The LaTeX code to insert this graph can look like:



\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[scanall]{psfrag}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}

\includegraphics{psfrag.ps}

\caption{This is the example}

\end{figure}

\end{document} 

                                                                 



Gerald.Jean@spgdag.ca wrote:

> 

> Hello everyone,

> 

> Splus-2000 on NT4

> 

> I am trying to produce plots in postscript format for inclusion in LaTeX

> documents.  I use "graphsheet" with format = "EPS", mostly because the

> resulting plots look better than using "postscript(...)", no problems with

> ticks labels' rotation, but, there is always a but it seems:

> 

> I work in French, my documents are in French and the axis label's, titles

> and other text on the graphs should be in French, this is where the "but"

> comes in: I can't get an accented letter in those labels, titles or

> whatever?  When I send the graph to the console, no problems I just replace

> the accented letters by their corresponding escape sequence, e.g. \351 for

> a ""; this also works well when I output the graph in "WMF" format and

> later imports it in Words or PowerPoint but not for "EPS"?  Once the ".EPS"

> file is included in LaTeX and LaTeX compiles it the output is a postscript

> file that I can look at through Ghostview, all accented letters in the

> text, not the graph, are OK, LaTeX as converted them to their escape

> sequence (can be seen in the .ps file output of LaTeX), the accented

> letters of the graph are not OK, they look like a big O with a slash

> through it, but they look OK in the .ps file itself???

> 

> Any idea on how to fix this?

> 

> Thanks to all,

> 

> Grald Jean

> Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat

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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics

Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences

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