Xfig questions

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

>> There is also somewhere a technical specification of xfig file format.
> yes. I'll have to get more cozy with the spec for that. oh well.
> djp
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I wrote a tutorial paper on Xfig. It's available under 'white papers' at
the url:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~phiscock/

It is definitely possible to rotate by an arbitrary angle. Select one of
the two 'rotation' icons in the main menu. Left-click (mouse button 1) on
the 'rotn angle' button at the bottom of the screen. A widget pops up
where you can enter a new rotation angle. Thereafter, select a rotation
icon in the main menu and click on an object to rotate it through that
angle.

When exporting to Latex, bear in mind that some rotation angles are not
supported in some export format. However, .eps should be fine for
anything.
Why use anything else than eps? Because other formats (such as pictex)
allow one to type in a latex math formula into a diagram. I'll elaborate
if that is of interest.

You can definitely make scale drawings with Xfig. The maintainer (Brian
Smith, as I recall) uses it mainly for that purpose.

Peter(_2;)

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