From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Sep 28 15:03:47 1995
Subject: Interaction with gnuplot
From: John L Daschbach <d3h486 at onsager dot pnl dot gov>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:03:01 -0700 (PDT)


I have used the following technique to setup gnuplot from within 
octave functions.

tstring = sprintf("set title \"%s\" ",title);
eval(tstring);

This works, but I can't set the number format for the axies becuase
sprintf won't handle \% and you would need:


tstring = sprintf("set format x \%.2e");

or something similar.  sprintf() complains that \% is not a recognized
escape sequence.  I have tried \%, \\%, \\\%, all to no avail.

You can of course set it at an octave prompt, but you have to remember
to do this by hand.

Any ideas?

-John

John L. Daschbach
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
jl_daschbach at pnl dot gov
d3h486 at onsager dot pnl dot gov