Re: superscript, subscript, Greek characters in plot labels?

[John W. Eaton]

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



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