Re: square behavior

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Monday 10 January 2005 08:33 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>I just think there is no case where a user wants that extra white space
>>in an EPS file that comes about from "square".  It's tolerable in X11,
>>but not as an imported graphic.
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>Disagree. I usually need an imported graphic to fit in an allocated
>*vertical* space, while the horizontal size is set by the column width.
>I want to specify size in column-inches, and any resulting whitespace
>on the edges is an expected consequence.
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>

That's true. But the amount of white space is easy to control in a word
processor. Usually there is a way to control width and/or height
depending upon whether one wants to maintain aspect ratio, which almost
always I want to do. For example, with LaTeX

/begin{figure*}[t]
/leavevmode
/centering
/epsfig{file=spikespec_ann.eps,width=0.7/columnwidth}
//*
/parbox{/columncaptionwidth}{
/caption{/label{fig:plottwo} Transform of neural spikes from
/reffig{fig:plotone}.}
}
/end{figure*}

formats a graph nicely; if the white space is trimmed away from the
figure that is. Could change the width. Could use height. Both.
Everything is scaled nicely. But if that white space gnuplot adds is
considered part of the width, there is no nice way of getting rid of it
without some bad LaTeX tricks that give errors. That, or things are off
center and space is used up.

>Anyhow, if you don't like the bounding box on a particular eps plot,
>just call up ghostscript and change it to suit.
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I know. But adding an extra step for the user isn't user friendly.

Dan

PS: Just downloaded LyX.