<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Vincent Fourmond wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This version has</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">dealt with one of the most annoying 'problem' with previous versions of</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tioga: it is now possible to set the exact size of the PDF file</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">produced, with the page_setup function. You can then simply include</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">directly the PDF file produced into LaTeX documents (or even others).</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I just want to add to Vincent's comments on this particular aspect of the new release. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.329412) 1px -1px;">Use the page_setup function!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now, for a few more details: </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In Tioga, the problem of page setup has finally been solved. At least, that's what I'm going to believe until I start hearing to the contrary from users! I think Tioga is coming to that delicious stage in the evolution of any software when it starts to shrink. While you're feeling your way into a problem, the system expands as new approaches are tried and new features are added. Once you finally begin to see how to do things in a good way, the design can be cleaned up and trimmed down. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For me at least, this has involved a "paradigm shift" concerning the role of the PDF file produced by Tioga. In the "old fashioned" model I was carrying around in my head, that PDF was just a "preview" of what would be constructed later in a TeX document using the separate *_figure.txt and *_figure.pdf files. In the "new vision", the so-called "preview" PDF has become the final product, and the *_figure files are strictly temporary steps in creating it. I have a hunch that most of you have been using Tioga with the "new vision" in mind all along! But the lack of a good way to do the page setup was making it difficult to do.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So... I predict that in a not-to-distant release, the word "preview" will be gone from Tioga's vocabulary. The *_figure files will be automatically deleted along with the *.aux and *.log files that currently litter the landscape. The enter_page routine will be used as a place to setup the default style for figures and plots -- not just page size and margins, but also things like fonts and font sizes.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have started converting all of my plot files to the new paradigm -- I urge you to do the same.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Bill</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>