Re: unknown device tikzstandalone

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ben Abbott 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: Ben Abbott ; "octave-maintainer; John Eaton ; Rik
> Date: 2018/5/7, Mon 13:55
> Subject: Re: unknown device tikzstandalone
> 
>>  On May 6, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>> 
>>  Sorry I sent a mail without revising.
>>  Please ignore the first post
>> 
>>  I have filed a bug (Feature Request).
>>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53847
>> 
>>  Title
>>   tikzstandalone support for octave for winodws (gnuplot embeded with 
> octave)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  However,
>> 
>>  Using external gnuplot that has lua/tikz terminal
>> 
>>  *************************************************************
>>>>  gnuplot_binary C:\Programs\gp523-64\bin\gnuplot
>>>>  graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>>>>  fplot ("[cos(x), sin(x)]", [0, 2*pi])
>>>>  print("test.tikz", "-dtikzstandalone")
>>  error: print: unknown device tikzstandalone
>>  error: called from
>>      __print_parse_opts__ at line 259 column 5
>>      print at line 322 column 8
>> 
>>>>  print("test.tikz", "-dtikz")
>>  ## works for tikz but not tikzstandalone
>>  *************************************************************
>> 
>> 
>>  I executed the same test on 4.4.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 (build myself).
>> 
>>  The same error appears 
>>     error: print: unknown device tikzstandalone
>> 
>>  However in  the manual of 4.4,
>> 
> https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Printing-and-Saving-Plots.html#Printing-and-Saving-Plots
>> 
>>  In the print device,
>> 
>>  tikz
>>  tikzstandalone
>>    Generate a LaTeX file using PGF/TikZ format. 
>>    The OpenGL-based toolkits create a PGF file while Gnuplot creates a TikZ 
> file. 
>>    The ‘tikzstandalone’ device produces a LaTeX document which includes the 
> TikZ file 
>>    (‘tikzstandalone’ and is only available for the Gnuplot graphics 
> toolkit).
>> 
>> 
>>  There seems to exist tikz but not tikzstandalone
>> 
>>  Is this a known issue?
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
>> 
> 
> I expect I wrote the original support for tikzstandalone. The approach was to 
> produce both a tex-file and a tikz-file. The tikz-file came from gnuplot. 
> Gl2ps 
> was able to generate a pgf-file, but that never worked for me. Since then 
> there 
> has been changes to the standalone output and the gnuplot backend. During 
> those 
> changes, the tikzstandalone must have been broken/disabled.
> 
> There is a function print.m:latex_standalone() whos handle is passed into 
> __opengl_print__.m and __gnuplot_print__.m as part of the “opts” structure. 
> The 
> approach that was intended to be used for tkzstandalone with gnuplot is 
> essentially equivelent to what is implemented for opengl (I haven’t tested 
> tikzstandalone with opengl, but I expect it works).
> 
> Ben

Ben

Thanks for your comment.


Can I file this topic to bug tracker as Feature request?

Tatsuro