Re: superscript, subscript, Greek characters in plot labels?

[Quentin Spencer]

Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> A S Hodel wrote:
>
> > The best answer of the many provided involves the use of the script 
> > fig2ps and a slight modification to the octave-forge print.m function 
> > so that it generates fig files with "special" text. 
>
>
> fig2ps takes an option "--forcespecial" so that the text need not be 
> "special" in the .fig file itself.
>
> Another thing not yet mentioned is the use of sans serif fonts.  I 
> accomplish this with a "sans_fonts.sty" file which contains the two lines
>
> \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
> \usepackage{sfmath}
>
> where sfmath.sty I downloaded from
>
> http://dtrx.de/od/tex/sfmath.html
>
> Then call fig2ps like this:
>
> fig2ps --add=type1cm,sans_fonts figure.fig
>
> The package "type1cm" causes latex to use scalable fonts.


Well, it looks like we've all come up with different solutions to the 
same problem. Some of this can be done on the (long) fig2ps command 
line. The following command will switch all roman to sans-serif fonts:

fig2eps --forcespecial 
--preamble=\\renewcommand{\\rmdefault}{\\sfdefault} figure.fig


-Quentin



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