Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2008/10/28 Thomas Weber <address@hidden>:
> Eh, adding TeX as dependency would be the end to all kind of usage
> pattern:

Well, it wouldn't have to be a hard dependency. Make it a compile-time
option.  That seems to be the approach for many other of the larger
components of Octave. TeX is a standard part of a GNU system anyways.

> using it on small machines

A handheld calculator doesn't really need to produce
publication-quality plots anyways, does it?

Also, I expect most people who use Octave already use LaTeX or TeX. Or
am I being naïve?

- Jordi G. H.