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I am interested in being able to use Xfig to
produce diagrams but to label the diagrams using TeX.
I.e. I wish to have labels which are formulae, eg. $x_1$,
for instance. My problem is that I am a Plain-TeX user, not
a LaTeX user.

In LaTeX, I gather that all I need to do is
then enter the text $x_1$ at the appropriate place in Xfig, edit the
text and change the "special flag" from normal to special, then 
export using the eepic option (i.e. eepic driver for transfig).

What are the options for Plain-TeX? The Pictex option also
only seems to produce code suitable for LaTeX. I don't understand
exactly what the pstex option does. Can anyone help with this?

One possiblity would be to write a driver to produce code 
to run under Tim Van Zandt's excellent PStricks macro package which runs under
Plain-TeX (and LaTeX and AmS-TeX). Has anyone out there 
written such a thing or planning to?

I would appreciate any thoughts on these questions (except telling
me to switch to LaTeX, since I do not wish to have to
convert 3 books from plainTex to LaTeX).

Glenn.





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