The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R)

This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LaTeX Companion , this new book is an invaluable LaTeX resource for people incorporating pictures into text. You will learn how to: incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document, program technical diagrams using several differant languages, produce color pictures, achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript, and make high-quality music scores and games diagrams. You will find detailed descriptions of: important packages like Xy-pic, PSTricks, and METAPOST; the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages; PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX; the dvips dvi to PostScript driver; and Ghostscript, the free interpreter that lets you view or print PostScript files even if you do not have a PostScript printer. The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX's basic illustration features, and present hundreds of examples of useful solutions to graphics and font problems. In addition to packages for general drawing, the book also presents specific tools for mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and people interested in games and music typesetting. All the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in public software archives, and the source code for all examples has been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives (details on page 497). LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LaTeX Companion, this new book will be an invaluable LaTeX resource for incorporating pictures into text.

You will learn how to:

• Incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document
• Program technical diagrams using several different languages
• Produce color pictures
• Achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript
• Make high-quality musical scores and games diagrams

You will find detailed descriptions of:

• Important packages like XYPIC, PSTricks, and METAPOST
• The standard LaTeX color and graphics packages
• PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX
• The dvips dvi to PostScript driver
• Ghostscript, the free interpreter that lets you view or print
  PostScript files, even if you do not have a PostScript printer

The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX's basic illustration features, and present hundreds of examples of useful solutions to graphics and font problems. In addition to packages for general drawing, the book also presents specific tools for mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and for people interested in games and music typesetting.

All the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in public software archives, and the source code for all examples has beenplaced on CTAN, the TeX archives. (Details in Appendix B)

Complementing The Latex Companion, this new graphics companion book addresses one of the most common needs among users of the LaTeX typesetting system: the incorporation of graphics into text. In addition to packages for general drawing, the book also describes more specific tools for mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and people interested in business graphics, games and music typesetting.

Preface Graphics with LaTex The LaTex2e graphics bundle Working with METAFONT and METAPOST Harnessing PostScript inside LaTex: the PSTricks package The XY-pic package Applications in chemistry, physics, and engineering Preparing music scores Playing games The world of color Using PostScript fonts PostScript drivers and tools Technical appendixes Getting all the goodies Bibliography Index A resource for those who use LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This book also shows you how to customize layout features to your own needs - from phrases and paragraphs to headings, lists, and pages. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete plug-and-play LaTeX installation, including the packages and examples featured in the book.