To: constant@lmt.ens-cachan.fr (Constantin-Goth)
Subject: Re: no subject (file transmission) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:11:40 +0700."
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> i am a convinced tgif user but i need some special characters in my sketches 
> which i import later in latex.
> 
> at the moment i am using tgif version 2.16 patchlevel 12, is it possible to
> generate my own characters, where can i find a do for doing this?

Are these international characters (such as French) or are they characters
you created (such as a new font)?  If you want international characters,
you can enter them in tgif by entering <ESC> followed by an ASCII character
when you are in text entering mode.

Let's say that you have Helvetica font on your system.  Do a
"xlsfonts | grep helv" and let's assume that you see the following line:

    -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-76-iso8859-1

Now do:

    xfd -font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-76-iso8859-1

The table shown can be divided into a top half which are ASCII and a
bottom half which are international characters.  Now go into text mode
in tgif and click somewhere to enter text.  Try entering an "A" and
then an <ESC>"A", then try an "B" and then an <ESC>"B".  You should be
able to tell what the <ESC> is doing!  If you want math characters, you
can do similar thing with the Symbol font (start with doing
"xlsfonts | grep symbol").

If you want to enter equations in LaTeX and you do quite a bit of equations,
please check out the LaTeX Equation package on
<URL:http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/goodies.html>.  Please read the
README file in it.  It takes some time to set it up just right and to get
it to work the first time.  But once it's set up, you can copy equations
from LaTeX files and paste them in tgif.  With one mouse click, tgif will
run latex, dvips, and pstoepsi to generate an EPS file which it automatically
imports back into the equation object.  To get this package to work, you
need ghostscript, netpbm, and pstoepsi (you can also use ps2epsi that
comes with ghostscript).  If you run into problems, please send me e-mail.
If you want to see some examples of slides that uses the eq.sym object from
this package, you can do:

    tgif http://boubon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/contrib/leana/SC94-poster/p13.obj

The equation is quite ugly on the screen, but if you print it to a postscript
printer, it comes out just like dvips because it's generated by dvips.
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@acm.org <URL:http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/william/>
