Re: Greek symbols in plot labels

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Jun-2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:

| On 6/19/06, Ron Crummett <address@hidden> wrote:
| > I am trying to add a label to a plot and the label is comprised of both
| > standard characters and Greek characters,
| 
| An alternate solution, if this is an .eps file you want to include
| with a LaTeX document, is to use something like the LaTeX psfrag
| package for labelling  your graphs. It's relatively easy. You put
| dummy labels with Octave and then use psfrag to put the real labels
| into the finished TeX. This has the added benefit that all fonts in
| your figures correspond perfectly to fonts in your TeX file.

Does that work with PDF files too?

I prefer the epslatex terminal.  You can convert the PS part to PDF
and the TeX part which contains the labels is processed by TeX, so can
contain any TeX fonts/symbols/whatever.

jwe