Re: How to get $ inserted in Ticks

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello everyone!
>> >
>> > I'm using the semilogy function and print my graph using epslatex as 
>> > device option. When I compile my .tex file in latex it complains about 
>> > missing $ inserted for the ticks in the y-axis. I tried to insert them 
>> > using yticklabel but the problem is, it's loosing the format (like 10^{5}) 
>> > and it's inserting the minor ticks too. How can I insert this $ signs in a 
>> > smooth way without changing the output format and digging to deep in the 
>> > gca options? There is the gnuplot option format xy $%g$. But I want to 
>> > call only one function in octave to give me the desired .tex file, without 
>> > using a terminal with gnuplot runnning?
>> > Any suggestion or help is really appreciated.
>> > My system specifications are the following:
>> >
>> > Ubuntu: 11.10
>> > Octave: 3.2.4
>> >
>> > Thank you a lot
>> > Reza
>> 
>> If you don't mind writing your own function to do the job, then you can 
>> create your own latex style ticklabels using a few lines.
>> 
>> demo semilogy 1
>> ytick = get (gca, 'ytick')
>> yticklabel = strsplit (sprintf ("$10^{%d}$\n", log10(ytick)), "\n")(1:end-1);
>> set (gca, 'yticklabel', yticklabel)
>> print -depslatexstandalone test.tex
>> 
>> I'm running a more recent Octave, and can't verity this works in 3.2.4 (but 
>> I expect it will).
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> Thank you Ben,
> 
> I tried something similar. But I wonder why the epslatex device is not 
> exporting in latex readable code? Is this a bug or is there a global option 
> (for all plotting function) to insert $ in ticks?
> 
> Reza 

Unfortunately, there is no option for that in Octave. It may be possible to 
handle it automatically. If you like you can submit a bug report. Be sure to 
mark the "Item Group" as a feature request.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave

Ben

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