Re: Latex Fonts and Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Ivan Sutoris wrote:
>
> > It is also possible to use epslatexstandalone terminal, which outputs
> > minimal tex file and eps figure. Tex file can be compiled directly by
> > latex and replaces all texts and labels in figure using native tex
> > fonts, so you should be also able to use tex notation. Resulting dvi
> > can be converted to pdf (or one can add \usepackage{epstopdf} to tex
> > file and use pdflatex directly). An artifical example:
> >
> > plot(rand(50,1))
> > xlabel('Time')
> > ylabel('$\varphi$')
> > print myfig.tex -depslatexstandalone
> > system('latex myfig.tex');
> > system('dvipdfm myfig.dvi');
> >
> > Result should be file myfig.pdf - this works quite well on my system
> > (Miktex 2.7).
> >
> > Regards
> > Ivan Sutoris
>
> Very cool!
>
> Thomas, I can verify this works for me on Mac OSX.
>
> If I understand your problem, this is a nice and simple solution.
>
> Ben

The graphic format TikZ/pgf works with both latex and pdflatex.  When  
I Googled to determine how gnuplot might be used to generate an image  
in this format, I discovered that the developers sources for gnuplot  
already support it. Info on this gnuplot terminal can be found at the  
link below.

        http://peter.affenbande.org/gnuplot/

The patch below adds support for the TikZ device to Octave's print()  
command.

I'm posting the changeset for those interested in testing, but will  
delay committing this changeset until the gnuplot developers finalize  
the naming of this new terminal (which I understand is presently under  
discussion).

Ben

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