Re: Latex Fonts and Octave

[LUK ShunTim]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Thomas Markovich wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Thomas Markovich wrote:
>>>
>>>> <groundstate1.ps>
>>>>
>>>> (I attached something, did it work?)
>>>>
>>>> We just have a few things like that. They're generated through a  
>>>> fourier sum. Using psfrag we replaced asd with \varphi and zxc  
>>>> with \psi_0^{(+)}(\varphi).
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hmmm ... I'm not certain what you imply by "image". Are you using  
>>>>> octave's image toolbox?
>>>>>
>>>>> So I understand better, can you explain what your figure is  
>>>>> illustrating? ... perhaps you can provide a link to something  
>>>>> similar?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben
>>> Great, there is a solution to your problem! ... actually more than  
>>> one.
>>>
>>> (1) First a broad solution ...
>>>
>>> Mac OSX has access to a lot of nice Linux stuff (I'm a Mac OSX user  
>>> myself).
>>>
>>> If haven't already done so, I recommend you install either the Fink  
>>> or DarwinPorts package manager. The link below compares the two.
>>>
>>>     
>>> http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/wiki/index.php/Mac_Users:DarwinPorts_vs_Fink
>>>
>>> I'm using Fink, but many prefer DarwinPorts.
>>>
>>> Each of these package managers make installing and updating  
>>> software a breeze.
>>>
>>> If you install xfig
>>>
>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig
>>>
>>> You can use Octave's "fig" terminal to produce an xfig file that  
>>> you can read using xfig and then export the result in various  
>>> formats ... which include a PDF/LaTeX format as well as a TIFF  
>>> format.
>>>
>>> I like xfig, but it *may* take some time to get use to. The links  
>>> below should be helpful for your problem.
>>>
>>>     http://epb.lbl.gov/xfig/frm_printing.html (see the section "xfig  
>>> and PDFLaTeX")
>>>
>>> Each of these package managers can also keep Octave, gnuplot, and  
>>> LaTeX up to date!
>>>
>>> (2) You might also try converting the xfig file to a tikz file  
>>> (using fig2tikz)
>>>
>>>     
>>> http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/software/figpy/#fig2tikz
>>>
>>> (3) You can try using png/TikZ to solve your problem. This approach  
>>> will allow you to produce the figure from within LaTeX.
>>>
>>>     http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/gnuplot-basics/
>>>
>>> (4) You can use my original suggestion
>>>
>>>     a) Produce your figure using Octave
>>>     b) Then from Octave's command line, type
>>>
>>>             drawnow ("latex", "your_figure.tex")
>>>
>>>     c) Include it in your paper using the commands below.
>>>
>>>       \begin{figure}
>>>         \begin{center}
>>>           \setlength{\unitlength}{2.54cm}
>>>           \begin{picture}(6.4,4.8)
>>>             \input{test.tex}
>>>           \end{picture}
>>>         \end{center}
>>>         \caption{The figure's caption goes here.}
>>>         \label{fig:label_for_ref}
>>>       \end{figure}
>>>
>>>     Be sure to change the (6.4,4.8) to obtain the figure size you  
>>> desire.

A hack that allows including eps files is Heiko Oberdiek's epstopdf
(sub)package that can convert eps to pdf on the fly during pdflatex-ing,
if you're willing to sacrifice security a little bit by allowing the
-shell-escape option.

Regards,
ST
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