Re: fig output, ylabel and special flag

[Quentin Spencer]

cctsim wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If I use the script below to create a .fig file
> I noticed that the special flag for further
> tex processing is not set for the string used 
> in ylabel. However, it is set for the string in xlabel. 
> The same happens for legend from octave-forge.
> Do I miss something?
>  
I noticed this also. It appears that the gnuplot maintainers changed 
this in one of their recent releases. The comment in the code says that 
the intention was to flag the string as special only if it had "\" 
characters in it, rather than to flag all strings as it did before. The 
problem with this approach is that it ignores other LaTeX things like 
"$" to put it in math mode. This bothered me enough to download the 
source and comment out the one line of code that does this to put it 
back to its previous functionality. If you're interested I have a patch 
and a updated RPM for RedHat 9.

-Quentin




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