Re: Tikz backend

[Ben Abbott]

On May 10, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently found this talk about the tikz backend Søren programmed. 
> Because I think this is a very elegant way to produce plots out of octave, I 
> wanted to ask if there is any progress in this direction? I've attached the 
> latest source of the code I found.
> Reza
>  
> Hi All 
> I recently had to produce some graphics using TikZ for a paper. Doing 
> this made me realise what a simple way of expressing graphics TikZ 
> really is. I just spend an hour or two hacking a TikZ backend for the 
> graphics system together. I'm attaching the code. 
> To see it in action, run 
>   demo print_tikz 
> from Octave and 
>   pdflatex mytest.tex 
> from your shell. This will produce a 'mytest.pdf' for you to look at. 
> The code is very incomplete, and I'm not sure if I'll ever have the time 
> to finish it, but I thought I'd share anyway. 
> Søren 
> <print_tikz.m>

Nico Schloemer has written an implementation that supports most plots (I think 
there are still some 3D features missing).

        http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/matlab2tikz

        https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz

Last year he modified the sources to be compatible with Octave.

Ben