From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 25 13:29:02 2005 Subject: Re: octave -> gnuplot -> latex in labels HOWTO ? From: Jonathan Stickel To: octave help mailing list Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:32:26 -0800 Matt Thanks for the report back. It turns out that the "fig2ps" I tried was an old version included with Texmacs. The fig2ps on sourceforge is much better! BTW: you need not set textspecial with gnuplot if you run fig2ps with the --forcespecial option. Regards, Jonathan Matt Flax wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >> >>Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org >>How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html >>Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html >>------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------