Re: Some issues

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 6 Dec 2003, Jon A. Solworth wrote:
> 	I just join the dia list.  Dia is a great tool and
> I use it both to prepare papers and projector slides (using
> pdflatex and texpower/foiltex).  But I have some problems with
> using the export filters.
>
> 	1. I would like the diagrams to have latex formated
> 	     text (so I can do math mode) in color.  I have not
> 	     been able to find an adequate means of doing this.

If you're asking for something that'll invoke TeX inside Dia, it doesn't
exist yet.  An implementation would certainly be welcome -- dvips can do
EPS output which would be usable for getting the results back into Dia.  I
won't have time to look at it this side of Christmas.

-Lars

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