From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 15 10:16:04 2003
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions
From: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>
To: A S Hodel <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:15:57 -0800

Thank you.  I use Mac OS X, too, so I will follow your directions 
exactly.

---John.


On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 08:04 AM, A S Hodel wrote:

> Store them as "m-files" just like in Matlab.  I would have sent three 
> attachments (printps.m, printpng.m, printeps.m), but that's sometimes 
> a problem for people on a mailing list.
>
> Details:  the functions must be in your octave "path," e.g., your 
> current directory or ${OCTAVEHOME}/share/octave/site/m
> where ${OCTAVEHOME} is the directory where octave is installed.  [Does 
> that apply under Windows/Cygwin?  I only use Mac OS X, so our windows 
> counterparts may need to help with this detail.]
>
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 09:03 AM, John B. Thoo wrote:
>
>> The functions are very neat.  Thanks.  (I'm still a newbie, too.) :)
>>
>> Question:  Would I have to enter (type in) these functions every time 
>> I open octave to use them, or is there a way to "save" these 
>> functions so that octave will remember them always?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ---John.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:50 AM, A S Hodel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:59 AM, Pablo Barrera wrote:
>>>
>>>> Elijah P Newren wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You must use the gset command. With this command you can pass 
>>>> directly to
>>>> gnuplot any "set" command. In order to remove the legend you only 
>>>> need
>>>>
>>>> gset nokey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gset is also usefull for printing a image in postcript.
>>>>
>>>> gset terminal postcript
>>>> gset output "output_file.ps"
>>>> plot anything
>>>
>>> here's a few scripts I often use for "printing."  printeps is 
>>> especially  useful if you use LaTeX for document preparation.
>>>
>>> These scripts will not work if you use subplot( ... ) to generate 
>>> multiple plots in a single window.  You will have to use gset 
>>> commands before using gnuplots multiplot capability.
>>>
>>> function printps(filename)
>>> % function printps(filename)
>>> % replot screen plot to a file
>>> % inputs:
>>> %   filename: string:
>>> % no argument checking done - this means YOU mark!
>>>
>>>   gset terminal postscript color
>>>   eval(sprintf("gset output '%s'", filename));
>>>   replot
>>>   gset terminal x11
>>> endfunction
>>>
>>>
>>> function printpng(filename,pngsiz,fn)
>>> % function printpng(filename,pngsiz,fn)
>>> % replot screen plot to a file
>>> %
>>> % inputs:
>>> %   filename: string:
>>> %   pngsiz: "small", "medium" (default), or "large"
>>> %   fn: figure number to convert to png form (default: 0)
>>> % no argument checking done
>>>
>>>   if(nargin < 2)
>>>     pngsiz = "small";
>>>   elseif(isempty(pngsiz))
>>>     pngsiz = "small";
>>>   endif
>>>   if(nargin < 3)
>>>     fn =0;
>>>   endif
>>>   figure(fn);
>>>   cmd = (sprintf(" gset terminal png %s color",pngsiz));
>>>   eval(cmd);
>>>   cmd = (sprintf("gset output '%s'", filename));
>>>   eval(cmd);
>>>   replot
>>>   closeplot();
>>> endfunction
>>>
>>> function printeps(filename)
>>> % function printeps(filename)
>>> % replot screen plot to a file
>>> % inputs:
>>> %   filename: string:
>>> % no argument checking done - this means YOU mark!
>>>
>>>   gset terminal postscript eps color
>>>   eval(sprintf("gset output '%s'", filename));
>>>   replot
>>>   #gset terminal x11
>>>   closeplot
>>> endfunction
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A. S. Hodel, Assoc. Prof, Dept. Elect & Comp Eng, Auburn University, 
>>> AL 36849-5201
>>> (334) 844-1854 200 Broun Hall hodelas at auburn dot edu 
>>> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte
>>
>>
> A. S. Hodel, Assoc. Prof, Dept. Elect & Comp Eng, Auburn University, 
> AL 36849-5201
> (334) 844-1854 200 Broun Hall hodelas at auburn dot edu 
> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte
>



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