RE: LaTeX in Octave

[Fulford, Glenn]

An alternative approach to those mentioned, is to use a LaTeX package called
PSfrag. 
What PSfrag does, is replaces a text label in an eps file with a LaTeX
equivalent. For more information, see
http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
and the PSfrag package can be downloaded from 
http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag/

Recently I saw posted in the Matlab newsgroup, by  Arno Linnemann, a Matlab
function laprint.m 
that interfaced nicely with psfrag, but I hadn't had a chance to try it out
yet. 
I would expect this would be easy to port to Octave. 

Laprint.m is free and available from 
http://www.uni-kassel.de/~linne/matlab/

Here is an example:

1. Create the matlab plot:
   >> set(0,'DefaultTextInterpreter','none')
   >> plot([1 2])
   >> title('\huge The \underline{true} $\int_\tau^\infty\tilde
y(t)dt$')
   >> laprint
2. Push save in the LaPrint window. 
3. Include unnamed.tex and unnamed.eps in a LaTeX document like this:
   \documentclass{article}
   \usepackage{epsfig,psfrag}
   \begin{document}
   \begin{figure}[ht]
    \begin{center}
     \input{unnamed.tex}
    \end{center}
   \end{figure}
  \end{document}
4. Compile and view using, e.g., latex, dvips and ghostview 


Hope this helps,  Glenn.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Sapp [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:34 AM
> To:   SZABO Sandor
> Cc:   address@hidden
> Subject:      Re: LaTeX in Octave
> 
> SZABO Sandor wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Octave users,
> > 
> > I would like to print a function (e.g. Gauss function) with the label
> > including  the
> > formula of it. Does exist a package which can handle LaTeX formula?
> > I'm interested in any possibilities.
> > Thanks,
> >                     Sandor Szabo
> >



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