Re: fig output, ylabel and special flag

[cctsim]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 06:28, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> cctsim wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >If I use the script below to create a .fig file
> >I noticed that the special flag for further
> >tex processing is not set for the string used
> >in ylabel. However, it is set for the string in xlabel.
> >The same happens for legend from octave-forge.
> >Do I miss something?
>
> I noticed this also. It appears that the gnuplot maintainers changed
> this in one of their recent releases. The comment in the code says that
> the intention was to flag the string as special only if it had "\"
> characters in it, rather than to flag all strings as it did before. The
> problem with this approach is that it ignores other LaTeX things like
> "$" to put it in math mode. This bothered me enough to download the
> source and comment out the one line of code that does this to put it
> back to its previous functionality. If you're interested I have a patch
> and a updated RPM for RedHat 9.
>
> -Quentin

The patch would be fantastic, thanks.
You were wright about the extra "\":

>>ylabel('$\\x(t)$')

It sets the special flag but then again you have to go the extra
mile and remove manually the "\" inside xfig. 


Many thanks in advance.



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