On May 10, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Ben Abbott <
address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 10, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've recently found this talk about the tikz backend Søren programmed. Because I think this is a very elegant way to produce plots out of octave, I wanted to ask if there is any progress in this direction? I've attached the latest source of the code I found.
> > Reza
> >
> > Hi All
> > I recently had to produce some graphics using TikZ for a paper. Doing
> > this made me realise what a simple way of expressing graphics TikZ
> > really is. I just spend an hour or two hacking a TikZ backend for the
> > graphics system together. I'm attaching the code.
> > To see it in action, run
> > demo print_tikz
> > from Octave and
> > pdflatex mytest.tex
> > from your shell. This will produce a 'mytest.pdf' for you to look at.
> > The code is very incomplete, and I'm not sure if I'll ever have the time
> > to finish it, but I thought I'd share anyway.
> > Søren
> > <print_tikz.m>
>
> Nico Schloemer has written an implementation that supports most plots (I think there are still some 3D features missing).
>
>
http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/matlab2tikz
>
>
https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz
>
> Last year he modified the sources to be compatible with Octave.
>
> Ben
>
>
> Cool, thank you ben!
>
> The script gave an error, that the string function "split" is undefined. Do I have to install a package or is my installation of Octave broken?