From graphics-request at octave dot org Sun Apr 16 13:26:36 2006
Subject: Re: Jump from 2.1.65 to 2.9.5
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: graphics at octave dot org
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>,         octave graphics <graphics@octave.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:33:51 -0500

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 16-Apr-2006, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> | I suppose that is one way of looking at it.  Of course, if one
> | thinks in the manner of C where escape characters are always
> | enterpretted as single characters, whether inside single or double
> | quotes, whether as an argument of a function or not, it's confusing.
> 
> Octave was originally consistent.  There was no difference between
> 'single-quoted' and "double-quoted" character strings.  But...

I understand.  Anyway, I think I'm alright with encapsulating strings with sprintf().  I've updated image routines to work with 2.9.5 and a fairly recent version of gnuplot.  (If not recent enough, the routines revert to existing Octave behavior.):

http://webpages.charter.net/dsebald/gnuplot/gp_image_15apr2006.zip

Dan