Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work?

[Bart Vandewoestyne]

Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
> Sorry, just noticed you asked about labelling lines, not axes. If you
> have octave-forge installed, you can use legend to label the individual
> lines:
>
> octave:1> plot (sin (0:10))

Hmm... first of all, does the above line really work for you?  I get:

octave:1> plot (sin (0:10))
error: octave_base_value::array_value(): wrong type argument `range'
error: evaluating argument list element number 1

> octave:2> legend (sprintf("hello world %d", 6))

About the 'legend' command: i think i have octave-forge correctly 
installed on my Debian box, because:

address@hidden:~$ dpkg --list | grep octave-forge
ii  octave-forge   2003.06.02-8   Contributed functions for GNU Octave 
from ht

> If you don't have octave forge, you can do similar things with
> eval (sprintf ("plot (sin(0:10), ';hello world %d;')", 8))

OK, i have to change this to:

octave:1> t=[0:0.1:2*pi]
octave:2> eval (sprintf ("plot (t, sin(t), ';hello world %d;')", 8))

to make it work, but it works :-)  Thanks!

Greetzzz,
Bart

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