There are various ways to make the usage of TeX/LaTeX in magicpoint more comfortable. A small script "tex2eps.sh" is included in the present magicpoint distribution. It can be used as an argument for the very useful "%filter" command in *.mgp scripts, and sends everything between the "%filter ... " and the "%endfilter" lines to the TeX system and generates EPS output. I have made trivial modifications to use LaTeX instead of TeX. Since the shell script "latex2eps.sh" is very short, I have attached it here. If this approach should be pursued further, the script could be refined - to check whether the EPS file is still lying around from a previous presentation and the *.mgp file has not been changed since then. If yes, the whole procedure could be skipped, thus speeding up magicpoint. Are there further ideas? ---------------------------------------- Dr. Stephan Buchert Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Tel: +81-52-789-4308 Fax: +81-52-789-4311 WWW: http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~scb
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