code to adjust figure markup

PM authors have used various markup conventions for inserting figures. Figure out what is being used, and write code that will adjust their TeX files so that each figure has a proper \begin{figure}… \end{figure} environment thrown around it. Submit diffs to authors.

For the long term, appropriate figure environments should be part of the PM style guide.

Drini has been wroking on the business of inserting pictures. As I understand it, there are still a few issues that haven't been completely sorted out to make the pictures come out right (or maybe they have been solved by now, I certainly know that he ws still morking on them a few weeks ago.) Also, he is writing a giude to PM graphics which will presumably discuss this. --rspuzio

Most of the issues with graphics are related with PSTricks and teTex on PM being a bit old. However for external inclusion there's practically no problem. I still don't know if I succedeed in making the graphics guide world editable since noone seems ever to help writing ;). The idea of having the graphics coded directly on the code appealed to me due to its portability and not having to manage fileboxes, but then I realized it was too much trouble and researched on how to export PSTricks to PDF, which has already been added to the grahics guide.

Notice also that what I use and what I've seen most people also uses is

     \begin{center}
     \includegraphics{file}
     \\Possibly some caption, seldom used
     \end{center}

--drini

Probably this is fine, but it might be better if one of the PM provided some standard function that would do exactly the right thing for including graphics, and everyone used exactly the same thing (and this function should be discussed in the style guide so people know what to do). I will take a look at the graphics guide before I go writing any code for transforming things on the FEM side, though. --jcorneli Fri Feb 25 01:55:16 2005 UTC

I actually have a macron in my default preamble that expands to that (well two macros)

    \newcommand{\figura}[1]{\begin{center}\includegraphics{#1}\end{center}}
    \newcommand{\figuraex}[2]{\begin{center}\includegraphics[#2]{#1}\end{center}}

where the second is a "extended" version that lets me pass parameters to includegraphics. I don't think my solution is optimal, however --drini