From help-request at octave dot org Thu Oct 27 10:50:04 2005
Subject: Re: superscript, subscript, Greek characters in plot labels?
From: Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net>
To: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:48:49 -0700

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 27-Oct-2005, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
> | A S Hodel wrote:
> | > The best answer of the many 
> | > provided involves the use of the script fig2ps and a slight modification 
> | > to the octave-forge print.m function so that it generates fig files with 
> | > "special" text. 
> | 
> | fig2ps takes an option "--forcespecial" so that the text need not be 
> | "special" in the .fig file itself.
> | 
> | Another thing not yet mentioned is the use of sans serif fonts.  I 
> | accomplish this with a "sans_fonts.sty" file which contains the two lines
> | 
> | \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
> | \usepackage{sfmath}
> | 
> | where sfmath.sty I downloaded from
> | 
> | http://dtrx.de/od/tex/sfmath.html
> | 
> | Then call fig2ps like this:
> | 
> | fig2ps --add=type1cm,sans_fonts figure.fig
> | 
> | The package "type1cm" causes latex to use scalable fonts.
> 
> If you are using LaTeX, then why go through the extra fig file format?
> Why not use the epslatex terminal?
> 
> jwe
> 

We've had this conversation before :)

http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/166

It is a matter of personal preference.  I much prefer having standalone, 
printable pdf figures.  (I actually use 'fig2pdf' rather than 'fig2ps.) 
  These I include in latex documents with "\includegraphics{}" rather 
than "\input{}".  Another advantage is that these figures are easy to 
submit when submitting documents to journals.

Jonathan



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