Re: [MiKTeX] How to embed raw TEX into LATEX?

[Ted P. <te...@te...>]

> I'm curious as why you chose to draw with raw TeX when there are many 
> fine postscript illustration programs available that can create output 
> that will place easily into a LaTeX file. What is the advantage of raw 
> TeX - I guess it might be more precise, or perhaps you can generate 
> diagrams automatically in this way from a database?

Drawing without a GUI often makes cleaner looking graphics that are 
well-integrated into TeX. I do all of my line drawings (and many of my 
plots of data) in LaTeX directly.

However, I think it's a mistake not to take advantage of the advanced 
features of PostScript. The package "PSTricks" (available for use in TeX 
and LaTeX) gives TeX'ers the ability to use everything wonderful 
provided by PostScript without opening up a GUI.

See:

http://www.tug.org/PSTricks/

for some examples and more information.

The recent PGF/TikZ is available too. While it's maybe a little easier 
to use, it doesn't have PostScript support (in fact, its creation was 
motivated by needing something LIKE PSTricks that could be used in 
PDFLaTeX directly).

--Ted


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