LaTeX Rules

LaTeX Rules

Posted Jan 3, 2006 23:23 UTC (Tue) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899)
In reply to: LaTeX Rules by nicku
Parent article: Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)

As another comment points out, the "steep learning curve" mainly relates to the fact that Xfig is so different from anything I have ever tried before, and thus seems quite arcane (B/W, ugly interface - although very effecient once you get to know it).

Also, it has some really strange problems with switching the "units" setting, or the orientation (landscape/portrait), which messes with the grid settings, sometimes making it impossible to do proper aligns afterwards, and also the lines starts snapping to a grid that is some pixels off.
I have also problems understanding the way that it colours the fonts sometimes, if you choose to use LaTeX fonts, and their colour is *not* black (often the case with the beamer theme I use), in the way that sometimes the font is black, sometimes the colour of the fonts that the theme has.

All in all, though, I like Xfig a lot, now that I know its quirks.

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