Paulo Ney

Thanks TKL, but I have a few other questions in sequence .... 1- What is the name of this unit? 2- Why is different from the unit used in the BoundingBox 3- Any reference for this? I am looking at the PS BlueBook and finding nothing ...

When you open and Xfig window and position four letters N, S, E, W on the canvas and Export if to PS + LaTeX you get an EPS file that contains a pretty normal BoundingBox: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 825 666 whose units are definitely measured in PS points... but the four letters are positioned with a set of coordinate units that look a bit different -- they are measured from the top-left corner down to the rest of the picture and the units have a range which is different than points. What are they? % % Fig...

When you open and Xfig window and position four letters N, S, E, W on the canvas and Export if to PS + LaTeX you get an EPS file that contains : % % Fig objects follow % % % here starts figure with depth 50 /Times-Roman ff 190.50 scf sf 6210 315 m gs 1 -1 sc (N) col0 sh gr /Times-Roman ff 190.50 scf sf 6300 10710 m gs 1 -1 sc (S) col0 sh gr /Times-Roman ff 190.50 scf sf 13005 5040 m gs 1 -1 sc (E) col0 sh gr /Times-Roman ff 190.50 scf sf 45 5310 m gs 1 -1 sc (W) col0 sh gr % here ends figure; where...

Well "asy" and "kpsewhich" are binaries sitting at the same level in the directory...

John, I spoke with Karl Berry and he confirmed that while TeX-core programs do --...

Should the command be just kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFMAIN or should it be: /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich...

Without setting the variable in the shell, I get: paulo@acer:/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux$...

kpsewhich was created for TeXLive and is part of all TeXLive installations! Is there...