Re: [jaxodraw-discuss] TeX characters with gaps

[John C. <jc...@ps...>]

Hi Nikolas,

I've got some Perl scripts that solve this problem.  They are available 
in the zip file at http://personal.psu.edu/jcc8/software/jaxodraw/  The 
top level scripts are jax2eps.pl and jax2pdf.pl, which do the conversion 
from an axodraw file to eps and pdf.  Simply execute either of these 
scripts to get further information.  (N.B. I am using OS-X and 
TeXLive/MacTeX; some corrections may be need on MS-Windows.)

Notes: These scripts use some external programs, which are installed by 
default under TeXLive.  In addition, you need a defined jaxodraw command 
to invoke JaxoDraw; I've provided a script that does this for OS-X.

(Technically, the trick done by the scripts is to run latex twice on the 
TeX file produced by jaxodraw.  The first time it is used to determine 
the correct size of the jaxodraw figure.  Then the TeX file is changed 
to correct the size of the figure from jaxodraw's original estimate. 
After that latex is run again, and the result converted to the desired 
eps file.)

If you don't want to have to remember to run this external command 
whenever you save a file from jaxodraw, you should know my workflow.  I 
use latexmk (part of TeXLive and MikTeX) to do the compilation of my 
documents.  It is configured with a "custom depedency" to automatically 
do the conversion of the jaxodraw file to eps (or pdf, as needed) 
whenever it is needed before a compilation of the document by latex (or 
pdflatex, etc).

John


P.S. Configuration for latexmk: I have the following in one of latexmk's 
initialization files:

     add_cus_dep( "xml", "eps", 0, "jax2eps" );
     add_cus_dep( "xml", "pdf", 0, "jax2pdf" );
     sub jax2eps {
         return system( "jax2eps '$_[0]'" );
      }
      sub jax2pdf {
          return system( "jax2pdf '$_[0]'" );
      }




On 10/17/18 7:08 AM, Lukas Theussl wrote:
> 
> Hi Nikolas,
> 
> This is a known problem, see Bug 3 in the User Guide: 
> http://jaxodraw.sourceforge.net/UsrGuide/problems.html#Bugs
> 
> A possible workaround (apart from editing the eps) is to draw an 
> 'invisible' object (ie with color of the background) at the edge of the 
> graph!
> 
> Am 15.10.2018 um 20:50 schrieb Nikolas Kauer:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I produced the attached eps file with jaxodraw-2.1-0.  The input file is also attached.
>> The TeX label "(b)" has gaps in both round brackets.  This is not a rendering issue as one can see by zooming in.  I have the same problem in other graphs.  It's like a "white" horizontal line is drawn close to the bottom of the graph area.
>>
>> Any hints how to avoid this?