Re: Turn off TeX for legend labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, April 20, 2009, at 02:41PM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 14-Apr-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>| >
>| > On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, andy buckle wrote:
>| >>
>| >> I have been able to set 'interpreter' to 'none' for titles and axes
>| >> labels,
>| >> but I can't seem to get it to work for legends. I would be grateful
>| >> for
>| >> advice. (I tried this on 3.0.1)
>| >
>| > I haven't tried this on 3.0.1, but it works on 3.0.4
>| >
>| > octave:1> x = 0:0.1:5;
>| > octave:2> plot(x,sin(x),x,cos(x))
>| > octave:3> legend ("\\alpha", "\\beta")
>| > octave:4> set (findobj (gca, "-property", "keylabel"), "interpreter",
>| > "none")
>| >
>| > Ben
>| 
>| I've attached a changeset for the developers sources. If there are no  
>| objections, I'll push it tomorrow.
>
>I think it would be much better to implement a Matlab-compatible
>legend function.  I think doing that is possible now.  The legend
>shouuld create an additional axes object that includes three objects
>for each entry in the legend.  The first is for the marker associated
>with the legend item, the second is for the line, and the third is the
>label.  I think placement and sizing will require some effort.  It
>would also be nice if the legend object could be opaque so it may
>appear on top of other plot objects, but I don't think that is
>absolutely necessary.
>
>jwe
>

I agree.

For the next 1-2 months I don't have the time to take this on.

If anyone is inclinded to tackle this, please do.

Ben