Re: ylabel woes

[Quentin Spencer]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> Changing this for compatibility might be a big mess.  Is it worth it?
> I don't know.  It seems much less consistent to have only some
> functions process escape sequences instead of doing what C does, and
> having the parser recognize the escape sequences when creating
> character strings.
>  
I don't see the need to modify how things are done. I didn't know about 
undo_string_escapes, and I suspect that using it in some of the 
octave-forge functions will eliminate the need for ever using more than 
a "\\". This doesn't bother me, while using 8 "\" characters does a 
little. Plotting functions already have enough differences from Matlab 
that this difference is probably not consequential. Even if other 
incompatibilities were fixed, the output generated still requires TeX 
postprocessing, so the process is still fundamentally different from 
Matlab, and probably should remain unmodified.




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