Re: unknown device tikzstandalone

[Ben Abbott]

> On May 7, 2018, at 01:16, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> ----- 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

Please do.
Thanks
Ben