Bug 20877 – media-gfx/transfig and media-gfx/xfig should have the shapepatch for LaTeX.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description dynamotwain 2003-05-12 16:49:53 UTC]

With the large number of packages for LaTeX, and such, I expected to find the
transfig-shapepatch compiled into either xfig or transfig, but they are not.

With such an addition, xfig and/or transfig would become much more useful to a
LaTeX user.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. transfig -L shape shape.fig shape.shape
Actual Results:  
Error: Output unknown language "shape"

Expected Results:  
`transfig` should have converted the Xfig file into a shape file for usage in
latex with the shapepar.sty package.

URL of latest transfig-shapepatch:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/transfig-shapepatch/shape-patch.3.2.4-shape-1.1.tar.gz

Directions to patch xfig:
unpack shape-patch.3.2.4-shape-1.1.tar.gz
cd ${S}
patch -p1 <${WORKDIR}/shape-patch.3.2.4-shape-1.1/xfig.3.2.4-shape-1.1.patch

Directions to patch transfig:
unpack shape-patch.3.2.4-shape-1.1.tar.gz
cd ${S}
patch -p1 <${WORKDIR}/shape-patch.3.2.4-shape-1.1/transfig.3.2.4-shape-1.1.patch

[Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-16 03:17:22 UTC]

thanks for your comments, neatly organised and the patch, i'll look into this as soon as i can.

[Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-09-01 20:42:51 UTC]

Sorry for the delay. (It's nearly a year old!)
I think it's good to add the feature, so I applied and tested 
the patch to both xfig and transfig, and bumped their revision. 
Thanks for reporting.