Re: Creating figures with Octave Plot

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

Hi!

Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 12:54 -0500 schrieb 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,
> 

I have used pgf/Tikz for my masters thesis. It's relatively easy to use
works well with pdflatex and gives high quality results. I can
definitely recommend it.

Greetings,
Laurent