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Making `.bb` files with Zephyr

End-of-line problems.

With a Macintosh system, the easiest way to create .bb files for EPS graphics, and other formats, is to use David Rand's Zephyr [5] text and list editing program. After launching the application, a graphics file is opened by selecting the special PICT Displayer extension from the pull-down menu, as shown here: Choosing Display LL Coordinates prepares Zephyr for recording coordinate values for marked points, where the origin is at the lower-left of the image. This opens a file-dialog window, allowing the required file to be found and opened. Indeed, any file that contains a graphics preview image, in the Macintosh PICT format, can be selected from the file-dialog. It is this preview image which will be shown and used for marking points.

**Figure:** Opening a graphics file with the **PICT Displayer** in *Zephyr*.
$\begin{figure} \begin{center} \rotatebox{-90}{\includegraphics[scale=.5]{ZephyrA.ps}}\end{center}\end{figure}$

The Display UL Coordinates alternative can be chosen instead, to have the origin at the upper-left corner and with the second coordinate increasing downwards. If this is done, images in the TEX document using such coordinates should be preceded by the \MacintoshOrigin command.

To mark a point within the image, simply click with the mouse at the desired point. A small window will pop up, as in the screen-shot below, allowing a label to be typed and the selection confirmed.

After the first point has been chosen a Log-window appears, containing bounding-box and other information, as well as data for the first marked point. A line of data is added for each subsequent point. Within the image the point is marked by a numbered cross. Guide-rules help position the cursor accurately: gradations may be inches, centimeters, or pixels. The Log-window can be seen in the above picture. Since it contains just plain text, the Log can be edited at any time.

**Figure:** Marking points for the `.bb` file with *Zephyr*'s **PICT Displayer**.
$\begin{figure} \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=.5]{ZephyrB.ps}\end{center}\end{figure}$

When finished with an image, click its close-box (in the upper-left corner); this also adds the closing comment to the Log. Finally close the Log-window and Save As..., choosing whatever name is desired--usually ending .bb, though this is not compulsory.

`\MacintoshOrigin`	allow for coordinates with origin at upper-left
`\EndLineAdjust`	adjust for awkward line-end characters

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Ross Moore 1999-07-30

Making .bb files with Zephyr

Making `.bb` files with Zephyr