Re: [newbie] advice for using LaTeX-code in Octave graphs

[Torsten]

On 09.10.2013 14:26, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Jean Dubois wrote:
> 
>> Can someone here tell me what the preferred method is for using LaTeX-code 
>> in combination with Octave-plots.
>> I currently use "print -deps ..." to generate eps-files from my plots and 
>> then I use psfrag in LaTeX to substitute simple labels and legends by more 
>> complicated LaTeX-formulas. This method works but it often happens that the 
>> placement and size of the final formulas is not optimal.
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> jean
> 
> Have you tried the epslatex, and/or tikz output formats?
> 
> close all
> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> plot (rand (3))
> xlabel ("indices")
> ylabel ("random value")
> print -depslatex test_epslatex
> 
> To see how the files are to be included in a latex document, you can try the 
> standalone version.
> 
> print -depslatexstandalone test_epslatex
> 
> If you are using pdflatex, just replace "epslatex" with "pdflatex"
> 

I second that: epslatex (pdflatex) works quite well. Maybe it is worth
mentioning that you can use latex-syntax in labels, legends etc. like

legend('$y_R(t)$','$y(t)$','$u(t)$');
xlabel('$t$ in s');
ylabel('$y_R(t)$, $y(t)$, $u(t)$');

Torsten