General ⇒ eepic conflicts with slashbox

[mro]

The problem is quickly explained: \backslashbox{bla}{blubb} does not produce the desired diagonal line when the eepic package is included, no matter whether before or after slashbox.

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper,english]{book}

%\usepackage{eepic} % when this is off it works
\usepackage{slashbox}

\begin{document}

\backslashbox{\bf Compression}{\bf Decompression}

\end{document}

[localghost]

The eepic (and epic) package can be considered outdated. For very simple graphics you could try the pict2e package which is also an extension to the LaTeX picture environment. But there are much more powerful graphics packages like pgf/tikZ and PSTricks. These packages probably avoid the clash with the slashbox package.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[mro]

I actually use eepic output from gnuplot as that looked best, compared to the alternative terminals that I have tried... for my version of gnuplot anyway -.-

[localghost]

I actually use eepic output from gnuplot as that looked best, compared to the alternative terminals that I have tried... for my version of gnuplot anyway -.-

Gnuplot has terminals which do much better looking output. But this depends a little bit on your compilation route (LaTeX -> PDF, LaTeX -> DVI -> PS, ...). The graphics packages I mentioned (except pict2e) also support plotting.