The LaTex Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript

The LaTex Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript
by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz & Frank Mittelbach

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 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 been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives. (Details in Appendix B)