Re: st: Any way to annotate a Stata graph with LaTeX?

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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I would be very interested in a detailed FAQ on your system for doing  
this on a Mac. Maybe it could grow into a graphics hacks file for  
others OSs like the text editor files has grown. I use a Mac.

-Dave

On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Daniel Becker wrote:


> Am 25.08.2008 um 10:52 schrieb Richard Sperling:
> > Has anyone developed a way or method to incorporate LaTeX formatted
> > text into a Stata graph? It would be great if the Stata graph editor
> > had the capability to generate LaTeX formatted annotations. For Mac
> > users, I have in mind something along the lines of the program  
> > LaTeXiT
> > that allows one to add snippets of LaTeX text to Powerpoint or  
> > Keynote
> > presentations.
>
> My way is: Exporting the Stata graph as an eps, then using a .tex  
> file like the one posted below. This file is then typeset by the  
> following sequence of commands aslo posted below (in TeXShop, a Mac- 
> Frontend for LaTeX, I do this via an "engine file" epsoverlay)
>
> If anyone is interested, I could provide more details how to prepare  
> your system to do all this. It assumes that the command epspdf  
> exists, for instance. Of course this is not very convenient, at  
> first sight, but works for me. It is even possible to use pstricks ...
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++ start sequence of commands
>
> #!/bin/tcsh
>
> set path= ($path /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin)
> set filename = "$1"
> set dviname = "${filename:r}.dvi"
> set psname = "${filename:r}.ps"
> set pdfname = "${filename:r}.pdf"
> set pdfnamebb = "${filename:r}-bb.pdf"
> set epsnamebb = "${filename:r}.eps"
> set auxname = "${filename:r}.aux"
> set logname = "${filename:r}.log"
>
> # run latex via ghostscript on the tex-file
> latex --shell-escape "$1"
> dvips -Ppdf -o "$psname" "$dviname"
> ps2pdf13 -dAutoRotatePages=/None "$psname" "$pdfname"
>
> # calculate bounding box
> epspdf -bb "$pdfname" "$epsnamebb"
> epspdf -bb "$pdfname" "$pdfnamebb"
>
>
> # clean up
>
> /bin/rm "$pdfname"
> /bin/rm "$dviname"
> /bin/rm "$auxname"
> /bin/rm "$psname"
> /bin/rm "$logname"
>
> #rename pictures
> mv "$pdfnamebb" "$pdfname"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> +++++++++++++ start LaTeX file
>
> %!TEX TS-program = epsoverlay
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
>
>       \usepackage{pstricks}
>       \usepackage{pstricks-add}
>       \usepackage{pst-plot}
>       \usepackage{pst-text,pst-node,pst-tree}
>
> \begin{document}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \newsavebox{\Imagebox}
> %%%%
> %%%% HERE: Load the eps-file
> %%%%
> \savebox{\Imagebox}{\includegraphics{kpath.eps}}
> \centering
> %%%%
> %%%% HERE: add LaTeX/pstricks
> %%%%
> \begin{pspicture}(\wd\Imagebox,\ht\Imagebox)%
> \rput[lb](0,0){\usebox{\Imagebox}}
> % grid to see coordinates, comment out when done
> \psgrid[subgriddiv=0,griddots=1,gridlabels=7pt]%
> (0,0)(\wd\Imagebox,\ht\Imagebox)
> % Add labels etc here:
> \rput{0}(5.9,3.9){$b = 1$}
> \rput{0}(3.4,2.2){$b = 5 $ nicht verwendet}
> \rput{0}(2.9,1.2){$b = 10 $}
>
> \rput{0}(0.5,8.1){$k(t)$}
> \rput{0}(6.7,0.4){$t$}
> \end{pspicture}
>
> \end{document}
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