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Florian Delizy volounteered to maintain Pidgin-LaTeX from now on. His site for it is here: http://www.unfreeze.net/?page_id=78

ScGraph is now hosted at http://sf.net
The project page is here: http://sf.net/projects/scgraph

More changes from Florian Delizy. Grab the update :)

Another release driven by patches sent in by Florian Delizy. This time some fixes went into making the plugin compile on windows xp (with support from Christopher Allene). We also adjusted the Makefile to make building on windows easier (please: if you are a windows user who knows what make is, please try to build the plugin and report to me)

FLorian also kindly provided a windows .dll. Please try it:

Download source and .dll here

More changes from Florian Delizy:

Uses the smiley system instead of the img system to display formula
This has interesting enhancements:

- First smiley text stays available for copy, hence copy of the image,
copies the smiley text
- Second since smileys are cached, (using a checksum hash table), latex
formula are not calculated twice
- Third, this allows future implementation to actually send the custom
smiley to the peer (to be done)
- Forth, the buffer string does not get modified (simpler parsing
function)

Here’s its page

With some changes from Florian Delizy.

- This will remove the use of the script (so to make it usable under win32 for instance)

- This patch removes the script usage, .tex file is now generated directly from the C code,
and latex is directly called. There still is the convert call (which still implies the imagemagik dependency, but that’s a WIP)

Temporary files are now created in a temporary directory (using tmpnam), script is no longer used so deleted

- This patch stack on the two preceding patches and allow convert to be configured

My buddy Peter Hedwig has written a terminal for gnuplot which allows interfacing with Lua. This is interesting for me as in the current configuration it uses Lua to write a TeX source file with PGF/Tikz-instructions which can then be included in LaTeX documents.

“WTF?” you might ask. And you are right in doing so. The usefulness of this becomes clear immediately to people who dislike how their gnuplot plots look when imported as bitmap into a LaTeX document. The fonts aren’t right, lines look wishy-washy, etc. And even if you do get these right, once you change the fonts in your document you have to redo all plots. The gnuplot-lua-terminal solves these issues by using PGF/Tikz. PGF/Tikz is a drawing library for LaTeX. Simply put, your gnuplot plot is translated into a list of LaTeX commands which make sure to use the right fonts, line widths, etc., to achieve a seamless fit into your LaTeX document.

Download it here

MINI-HOWTO:

start gnuplot

Then in the terminal run:

and then use some pdf viewer to look at the result. The default settings of the Lua terminal create a tex file without preamble, etc, so you can include it in your document. With the “fulldoc” option we get a complete LaTeX source including preambel, etc.. Have a look at the included documentation for more info.

Example:

Here you can find an example output.

LaTeX-Preview is a small python app to preview the output generated by LaTeX.

Read more here

As a final measure on this evening i have added OSC support to kontroll. You can specify a OSC-URL (liblo-style) for each of the axes and a range. Kontroll then sends float values. Here’s its page.

And here’s a screenshot for the eye candy:

Yet another minor update. Kontroll now speaks to LASH! Grab it from its page