From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 25 04:47:39 2005
Subject: Re: octave -> gnuplot -> latex in labels HOWTO ?
From: Matt Flax <flatmax at Matt dot Flax>
To: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:40:29 +1100

Firstly hello,

thanks everybody who offered help.

It seems that the most straight forward approach is to do the following 
:
a] run octave and make a plot.
b] save the plot as a figure 
	it is important to set the fig term like so :
  gset term fig textspecial

c] run fig2ps on the output file :
	fig2ps homepage : http://fig2ps.sourceforge.net/
	fig2ps fileName.fig
	should  spit out fileName.ps

d] view the output ps ... it should have latex style formatting in it.

the resulting ps image does not suffer from aliasing and scales nicely.

I have tried several conversion scripts and the one specified above 
works very nicely, including complete cropping of the output ps file.

thanks
Matt

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:16:44AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Simple subscript and superscript commands ("_" or "^") do work
> automatically with the eps gnuplot terminal.  For more advanced latex, I
> use the xfig terminal, and then use "figfrag":
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/figfrag/?action=/tex-archive/graphics/
> 
> figfrag converts xfig files to eps, processing all the latex commands.
> I had to patch figfrag to use epstool for bounding box correction, so
> let me know if you want the patch.  Also, I've found I have to open up
> the xfig file and resave it; for some reason figfrag doesn't like the
> xfig file output by gnuplot.  Oh, and there is also the program "fig2ps"
> that does nearly the same thing; I just happen to like figfrag better.
> 
> HTH,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> Matt Flax wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I would like some math formatting inserted into my wordprocessor Figure 
> >x/y labels.
> >
> >I would like to put some formatting in my xlabels ... something like :
> > gset xlabel '$\\gamma h_2$'
> >Which when viewed through the word processor should be printed as the 
> >Greek letter Gamma and an 'h' with a '2' as subscript.
> >
> >Does anyone out there have PERSONAL examples of how to put latex into 
> >the labels of plots .... and then import to latex or preferably LyX ?
> >
> >Normally LyX allows you to export it as a simple .fig file which gets 
> >converted on the fly , however the labels don't seem to enter the tex or 
> >lyx math modes ...
> >
> >thanks
> >Matt
> 
> 
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