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

[Quentin Spencer]

Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > On 27-Oct-2005, 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.
> >
> > If you are using LaTeX, then why go through the extra fig file format?
> > Why not use the epslatex terminal?
> >
> > jwe
>
> We've had this conversation before :)
>
> http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/166
>
> It is a matter of personal preference.  I much prefer having 
> standalone, printable pdf figures.  (I actually use 'fig2pdf' rather 
> than 'fig2ps.)  These I include in latex documents with 
> "\includegraphics{}" rather than "\input{}".  Another advantage is 
> that these figures are easy to submit when submitting documents to 
> journals.


When I discovered fig2ps (thanks to Jonathan, I believe), I also moved 
away from using \input to using \includegraphics for the same reason. 
The old way worked fine for my makefile-based way of creating latex 
documents, but publishers always want self-contained figures that are 
separate from the text of the document. The other benefit of fig2ps is 
that I sometimes have figures that are drawn in xfig. I can impose a 
consistent look (same font, for example) on a set of figures (generated 
by octave or xfig) by using fig2ps with forcespecial and other options, 
as is done in the examples given by Jonathan and myself.

-Quentin



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