Re: octave in auctex latex emacs

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:40:50PM +0200, Markus Feldmann wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> i am writing my diploma. Therefore i am in need of
> some examples with octave and gnuplot. It would be nice
> if there is a possibility to insert the octave commands
> directly into my diploma report, so that the plots
> will be updated every time i change some variables.
> 
> Or maybe i can make it non-updateable with some latex parameters.
> :-)
> 
> Is this possible ?

I would go the other way round:

1) Write your .m files which save the pictures into well-defined files.
2) Include these .m files into LaTeX (there are some syntax highlighter
for LaTeX available).

3) Create your .dvi or .pdf files via a Makefile that first calls the .m
files via Octave and LaTeX afterwards.

I don't think you want to re-create your figures every time you run
LaTeX.

        Thomas