Re: octave -> gnuplot -> latex in labels HOWTO ?

[Jonathan Stickel]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Jan-2005, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | Thanks for the report back.  It turns out that the "fig2ps" I tried was 
> | an old version included with Texmacs.  The fig2ps on sourceforge is much 
> | better!
> | 
> | BTW:  you need not set textspecial with gnuplot if you run fig2ps with 
> | the --forcespecial option.
>
> If you are using LaTeX, what is the advantage of gnuplot's fig
> terminal driver plus fig2ps over gnuplot's epslatex terminal driver?

It's mostly a matter of preference and mode of operation.  I like to 
have standalone pdf (or eps) figure files that I can view in final form 
without latexing an entire document.  There is also the matter of 
preferred latex syntax:  \includegraphics vs. \input, and how to scale 
the included figure.  Perhaps most tangible, there is the ability to 
mark up the plots in xfig when using the fig output from gnuplot.

Anyway, that is my rational :)

Jonathan



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