Re: [newbie] advice for using LaTeX-code in Octave graphs

[Jean Dubois]

2013/10/9 Torsten <address@hidden>

On 09.10.2013 14:26, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Jean Dubois wrote:
>
>> Can someone here tell me what the preferred method is for using LaTeX-code in combination with Octave-plots.
>> I currently use "print -deps ..." to generate eps-files from my plots and then I use psfrag in LaTeX to substitute simple labels and legends by more complicated LaTeX-formulas. This method works but it often happens that the placement and size of the final formulas is not optimal.
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> jean
>
> Have you tried the epslatex, and/or tikz output formats?
>
> close all
> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> plot (rand (3))
> xlabel ("indices")
> ylabel ("random value")
> print -depslatex test_epslatex
>
> To see how the files are to be included in a latex document, you can try the standalone version.
>
> print -depslatexstandalone test_epslatex
>
> If you are using pdflatex, just replace "epslatex" with "pdflatex"
>

I second that: epslatex (pdflatex) works quite well. Maybe it is worth
mentioning that you can use latex-syntax in labels, legends etc. like

legend('$y_R(t)$','$y(t)$','$u(t)$');
xlabel('$t$ in s');
ylabel('$y_R(t)$, $y(t)$, $u(t)$');

Torsten

Thanks to all for the advice offered, epslatex is what I like most

best regards,

jean