(mgp-users 00319) Re: conversion from latex ..

[Carlos Puchol <cpg@puchol.com>]

there have been various iterations of this business of latex in mgp.

here is what works for me.

++ carlos

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#!/bin/bash

# echo "writing $1.eps."


tmp=mgptmp$$

\rm -f $tmp.tex $tmp.log $tmp.dvi >& /dev/null

cat <<__EOF > $tmp.tex
\documentstyle{article}   
\pagestyle{empty}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
__EOF
cat >> $tmp.tex
echo "\end{document}" >> $tmp.tex
(latex $tmp.tex > /dev/null)
(dvips -f -E $tmp.dvi > $tmp.eps 2>/dev/null)

rm -rf $tmp.tex $tmp.log $tmp.dvi $tmp.aux
mv $tmp.eps /tmp/$tmp.eps
chmod 600 /tmp/$tmp.eps

echo -n "%newimage "

if [ ! -z "$1" ] 
then
	echo -n "$@"
else
	echo -n "-zoom 400"
fi

echo " \"/tmp/$tmp.eps\""

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