On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 nishida@csl.sony.co.jp wrote: > From: Hans Fangohr <fangohr@soton.ac.uk> > Subject: [mgp-users 00763] One Latex Character in a line with normal text > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:28:39 +0000 (GMT) > Message-ID: <> > > fangohr> Hi, > fangohr> > fangohr> I would like to write something like > fangohr> > fangohr> "The state $\phi$ is defined by ..." > fangohr> > fangohr> This I can achieve by this fragment > fangohr> #------------------------------ > fangohr> The state > fangohr> %cont, newimage -yscrzoom 5 "phi.eps" > fangohr> is defined by ... > fangohr> This is new line 1. > fangohr> This is new line 2. > fangohr> This is new line 3. > fangohr> #------------------------------ > fangohr> > fangohr> However, the "new line 1" has a large spacing to "The state > fangohr> $\phi$...". This is (I guess) because the equation-eps-file phi.eps is > fangohr> so big, i.e. the bounding box bulges out to the next line. However, > fangohr> the fontsize of \phi in phi.eps and the normal text is just the same. > fangohr> I suppose the problem is that the bounding box is not tight enough. (?) > fangohr> > fangohr> I have used "dvips -f -E " as recommended to produce phi.eps. > fangohr> > fangohr> Can anyone suggest a way out? > > Hmm, Strage to me.. I tried same configuration as you described, > but there is no such a problem in my environment. Please let me know > your version number. > Dear Yoshifumi Nishida, thanks for answering my mail! In the meantime since I wrote the first mail, I have installed a new Linux-distribution, and the current mgp-version is "mgp version 1.08a (20010524)". I have done the test again, and the problem has disappeared. So it probably was a much older version I had before. I cannot remember at the moment which version it was. However, there is (still) a slight imperfection: The symbol shown in the eps-file is slighly elevated with respect to the baseline of the other text. For clarity I have attached a very small png-file (hope this is okay in the mailing list) showing the result of this source: The state %cont, newimage -yscrzoom 5 "eqn_phi.eps" is defined by ... This is new line 1. This is new line 2. where eqn_phi.tex essentially contains $$\Phi$$. This shift of base-line is not a major problem, but if there was a wish-list, then I would like to put this on there: It would be nice if this symbol can be aligned with the base-line of the text. In particular if you write formulae (i.e. more than one letter or symbol), then this shift of the base-line makes the total impression of the slide inhomogenous. I suppose it is hard to find a general rule for this vertical displacement (imagine for example the letter "q" in a formula: it should go underneath the baseline with its line pointing downwards), but a command (option) that displaces the eps-file by an arbitrary amount in the y-direction would allow to create perfectly aligned equations (even if one had to play with the numbers a while to get a good vertical displacement for each formula). Regards, Hans P.S. Just gave my first lengthy presentation with mgp - and it was great. Thanks for providing such a nice piece of software. ----------------------------------------- Hans Fangohr, fangohr@soton.ac.uk High Performance Computing Group, Dept. Electronics and Computer Science Building 59, Level 3, Room 3237, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Great Britain http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hf99r -----------------------------------------
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