Re: [Texmacs-dev] Bugs in figure export to LaTeX

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> I am trying pushing adoption of TeXmacs in my group for all needs,
> publication of papers included. Currently, the major blocking issue is
> LaTeX export, and perhaps the lack of a suitable style file for RevTeX4.
>
> In particular, there are problems when exporting figures: when images
> are linked to, the tmfloat macro makes reference to a 'figure counter'
> which is not defined, thus making LaTeX to complain.
>
> When images are included, the epsfig{file=} code makes also LaTeX
> complain (it does not find the '' file). Maybe, as long as TeXmacs is
> unable to generate an eps file out of the postscript <raw-data> of the
> figure, the tmfloat macro should treat the null string by printing a
> 'figure only available in TeXmacs source file' string.

You are right. This has to be done better, but I don't know when
I will have time for this. When I have time for the improving
the LaTeX converter, my priority will be to fix Felix Breuer's
remark some time ago.

Exporting images is problematic for two reasons: if the image is
not a postscript image, then it has to be converter. More generally,
if the postscript image has to be generated as a file (due to
the above reason or in the case of inline images), it is not clear
what to do with the file name, and how to handle objects which
represent several physical files.

> Also, in neither case is the size information is passed to LaTeX.

I think that we do (partially) take care of this in recent versions.