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6.7. DRAWING FIGURES 101Figure 6.1: A cat writing scientific text.Include the figure into your document. Write some caption, invent alabel, and test referring to it!6.7 Drawing figuresIn these exercises we will parctise to use xfig tool for drawing figures. Xfig isavailable in cs and Linux. It is very easy to learn by trying, but you can findmore information by command man xfig or you can search manual pages inthe net (keywords: xfig manual).6.7.1 Advices• You can start xfig from shell by command xfig (when the file doesn’thave any name) or you can already give it a name by command xfigexample.fig. If you didn’t give any file name in the beginning, youhave to save your figure by command save as.• Click grid mode and select a grid. Now it is easier to draw objectsinto positions you want.• When you are finishing, remember to save your file. (You can save itduring drawing, too. If something goes wrong, you can continue fromthe last saved version.)
102 CHAPTER 6. L A TEXINSTRUCTIONS AND EXERCISES• In edit menu there is command undo which lets you cancel the lastdrawing operation.• By default, you cannot draw or move objects anywhere, but only in thegrid. If this is too restricting, you can select Point position → Any.• When you finish, save the figure as postscrip by selecting commandExport from file menu. The default is encapsulated postscript andthe file name will be example.eps (if your original file was example.fig).6.7.2 Tasks1. Draw some of the given figures by xfig, save them as eps. Check theeps figures by command ghostview example.eps or gv example.eps.Notice: your figures do not have to be indentical than the examples!2. Load figure articletree.fig from http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/pages/whamalai/sciwri/articletree.fig. Open it in xfig and make yourown changes. Save the file and import it as an eps file.3. Draw figures you need for your own Sciwri paper!4. Extra task (if you have time): test how to include latex math commandsinto a figure in xfig. Write the math commands (inside $ characters)into your figure. Select Edit command and click the stringwhich contains latex symbols. Change the Special Flag to Special.When you export the figure select language Combined PS/Latex (bothparts). This produces two files example.pstex and example.pstex tinto your working directory. Include the latter into your document by\input{example.pstex_t}as demonstrated in6.8 Spell checkingTest aspell tool for spell checking. Notice that aspell is a newer (andbetter) tool than ispell. In our systems, the default language seems to beAmerican English, but you can change it to British English.• If you run aspell from emacs, select the dictionary from tools →spell checking → select British dict. Start checking by selectingSpell-Check Buffer from the same menu. You get the list ofcommands by ctrl-h.
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