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Latex in graphics

2 messages · Martin Maechler, Mark Robinson

Martin Maechler
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Mark> Hi.

    Mark> It says in the FAQ that the LaTex in graphics is a mostly
    Mark> undocumented thing.  I am interested in playing with this.  Can
    Mark> someone give me a starting point?

what do you mean by "playing"?

Are you offering to write documentation?
Starting points are

Examples in
	 src/library/base/man/text.Rd	 and.. some other *.Rd
then doc/manual/plotmath.tex (which does NOT contain all the new additions:)

but mainly  Ihaka / Murrell's  report on mathematical annotation
    ~~~~~~
which was mentioned by Ross on Dec.31 and which is
not publicly available anymore now, since it is Copyright by JCGS where it
will appear as publication `soon'.....
Ross actually promised some documentation himself.
One could produce something, using the LaTeX source of section 4 of the
above paper.  Ross will have to say what is legally available, however.

and the final joke:
  In R, everything is ``documented'' via source availability:

	src/main/plotmath.c
	         ~~~~~~~~~~
	src/include/Graphics.h
	src/main/graphics.c
	src/main/plot.c
	src/main/par.c
	...

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Mark Robinson
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Martin Maechler wrote:
How hard can it be? :-)  

Actually, what is the procedure for documentation.  What tools do I need
(ie. latex2html?, etc.) and how does it make it to the distribution,
etc.?  Also, I am on a Windows PC.
Martin Maechler wrote:
Ross?

Lemme know,
Mark, the undergrad

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