XfigPad

This application is a tiny scribble pad for Xfig to support you to draw mathematical formulas and equations which are directly editable in Xfig. Formulas and equations are described by LaTeX-like script used in Lout.

XfigPad exports the math equation objects you select to Xfig cut buffer (~/.xfig). So you can 'paste objects' in Xfig.

Ruby script

xfigpad.rb 0.5c ... work with ruby-1.8
xfigpad.rb 0.5d ... support ruby-2.0.0 and ruby-1.8

ScreenShot


Requirements

You will need unix-like OS such as Linux, Cygwin to use XfigPad, since XfigPad is depending to the following applications.
I myself am using XfigPad on Cygwin and CentOS which provide the following applications as compiled packages (except for Lout on Cygwin, but easy to compile).
ruby
ruby-1.8.5-31.el5_9 or 2.0.0
ruby-tcltk
ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-31.el5_9
lout (>=3.36)
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout/
lout-3.36-1.el5
pstoedit (>=3.62)
http://www.pstoedit.net/
( symbol 'mu' was not correctly coverted in ver. 3.50 )
gs
ghostscript-8.70-15.el5_9.3
xfig
xfig-3.2.4-21.3.el5

Example formula file

test.xfp