Re: unknown device tikzstandalone

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Abbott 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: "octave-maintainers; John W. Eaton; Rik 
> Date: 2018/5/7, Mon 22:46
> Subject: Re: unknown device tikzstandalone
> 
>>  On May 7, 2018, at 01:16, Tatsuro MATSUOKA  
> 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


Done

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53861


Further discussion should be done in the above.

Tatsuro