Re: Epstopdf and Lucida fonts in labels

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Maurizio Vianello wrote:

> Thanks.

My pleasure.

> I understand that you are proposing the cleanest way to do what I
> need.

I think it's one clean way of doing it.

> I think that something like this would need to be automated in order
> to be used.

Actually, if you're not doing a lot of files at once, you can just
use the same TeX file.  Another possibility is to repeat the code in
a single TeX file as many times as you need.  I only recently
discovered the `-i' and `-S' options to `dvips' which make it possible to
generate separate PostScript files from a single dvi file.

One advantage to automating the process is that it makes it possible
to rename the eps files.  I've tried to use `\count' registers for
the numerical suffixes within a loop in TeX, but I couldn't get it
to work.  Therefore, I find it more convenient to rename the EPS
files output by MetaPost when I want to do this, e.g., `a.1' to `a_1.eps'.
For some reason, I could get looping to work when the names had this form.
I don't know what the problem is.
However, if you use an Emacs-Lisp function or a shell script to generate
your TeX code, you could just let it do the looping and not bother
changing the names.

> I'll try that out. Someone suggested to use mptopdf, a program
> from the people of "context " and it seems to work well, too,
> even if, as
> you say, that solution would depend on some fancy external program.

There's usually not just one way of doing something.
If you want to try it my way and have any questions,
please feel free to ask.

Laurence