Re: Creating figures with Octave Plot

[Miguel Bazdresch]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ian Journeaux <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am trying to create plots in Octave that I can use in a LaTeX report I am
> creating.

I have resorted to the following method to produce beautiful plots in
latex. First, install the pgfplots latex package
(http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/). Then, from octave, save your data
to a file:

  save -ascii [x' y'] data.dat

Then, use tikz to import the data (from within your latex document);
for example:

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
        \begin{axis}[
                width=8.5cm,
                xlabel={some text},
                ylabel={some other text}
        ]
                \addplot[color=blue] file {data.dat}
        \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{Some text.}
\label{alabel}
\end{figure}

This is more work than just importing a graphics file, but the results
are beautiful and (IMO) well worth the time. See http://texample.net
for many more examples and resources.

HTH,

-- 
Miguel Bazdresch