Editing Manual (section)

===How to reproduce specific figures in existing papers===
A frequently encountered case is when a researcher wants to reproduce only one or several figures from an entire paper, but not the entire paper. This can happen because on that system LaTeX dependencies of Madagascar are missing or not working properly, or simply because the researcher is interested only in that result.
# '''Finding the paper directory:''' If the interesting article has been found by browsing/hyperlink to [[Reproducible Documents]], then the reproducibility package corresponding to <pre>http://www.reproducibility.org/RSF/book/&lt;bookname&gt;/&lt;papername&gt;/paper_html/</pre> can be found in <pre>RSFSRC/book/&lt;bookname&gt;/&lt;papername&gt;/</pre>
# '''Finding result names:''' Use the html version of the paper, or grep in all <tt>.tex</tt> files in the directory for a text string that occurs in the figure legend. Multiple-panel figures may have individual names for each panel. [Note: In pdf versions obtained with scons pdf in paper directory, neither the book name nor paper directory name nor figure names are given. LaTeX options to have figure names as well as a Geophysics-style header/footer with more details on the first page may be in order]
# '''Finding where to launch the re-build''': In some cases, rules for creating a result are specified in SConstruct files in subdirectories of the main paper directory. If step 4 fails in the main paper directory, then you will have to find where the figure is built. Because result names may be generated automatically, a simple grep may not be enough and you may need to read the SConstruct and python modules imported by it to figure out if the result is generated there.
# '''Re-build''' and display the figure by typing <tt>scons resultname.view</tt> in the appropriate directory.

SConstructs containing a <tt>Fetch</tt> instruction will attempt to download public-domain input data from a communal server when the "scons" command is run. A fast internet connection is necessary in this case.