Re: R: Re: latex interpreter

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:56 AM, address@hidden wrote:

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> Il giorno 16/lug/2010, alle ore 22.59, bpabbott ha scritto:
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> On 16 
> Jul, 2010,at 05:51 PM, "address@hidden" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 16/lug/2010, alle ore 22.38, bpabbott 
> ha scritto:
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> On 16 Jul, 2010,at 
> 03:58 PM, "address@hidden" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
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> 15/lug/2010, alle ore 23.13, Ben 
> Abbott ha scritto:
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> On Jul 15, 2010, 
> 
> at 5:41 PM, lovecraft22 wrote:
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> On 15 Jul, 2010,at 04:34 PM, 
> 
> lovecraft22 
> <[hidden email]> wrote: 
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> 
> 
> What about the latex 
> 
> interpreter? 
> Any way of having it in octave? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I assume this 
> 
> question is unrelated 
> to "hold all"? .. so I've 
> changed the email's 
> 
> subject. 
> 
> Octave 
> includes a psuedo TeX 
> interpreter, but no LaTeX 
> 
> interpreter (yet). 
> 
> 
> However, it is 
> possible to produce figures using 
> 
> the print command to 
> be included 
> in LaTeX documents which use the 
> 
> LaTeX font. 
> 
> If you 
> provide 
> additional information about what you'd 
> 
> like to do, we can be 
> more 
> helpful. 
> 
> Ben 
> 
> In Matlab, for example, 
> 
> would read xlabel('U_
> {\infty}') as a latex 
> command and it would 
> 
> produce a label with the 
> infinite symbol as a 
> subscript of U… 
> That's 
> 
> what I would like to 
> obtain. 
> 
> Thank you! 
> 
> 
> 
> Minor detail, the syntax 
> 
> you've given is for 
> the TeX interpreter (not the LaTeX one). In both 
> 
> Matlab and Octave 
> you will get the result you like by ...
> 
> xlabel ('U_
> 
> 
> {\infty}','interpreter', 'tex')
> 
> Ben
> 
> Have you tried that? I can't get 
> 
> it working…
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
> Il giorno 
> 
> Yes. It works for me. What 
> 
> version of Octave are you running?
> 
> Ben
> 
> I'm running octave 3.2.3 on 
> macosx 10.6.4
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
> I'm also running MacOS X 10.6.4 and 
> Octave 3.2.3.
> 
> Ben
> 
> p.s. please "reply-all" and respond at the bottom 
> of the email so that those arrive later can follow along.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here is 
> what I'm getting:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2459663/Schermata%202010-07-
> 17%20a%2010.51.18.png
> 
> Thank you!

Looks like it may be a font problem. I'll make a guess, but you may want to 
read through the gnuplot manual to better understand how it handles fonts (very 
confusing for me).

Please check to see what the command below gives.

octave:2> getenv("GDFONTPATH")
ans = /Library/Fonts

If you don't get the same result, then try 

        setenv ("GDFONTPATH", "/Library/Fonts")
        close all
        plot (1:10)
        xlabel ("U_{\infty}", "interpreter", "tex")

If you still don't the get the correct result, try changing the font used.

        set (findall (gcf, "-property", "fontname"), "Arial")
        drawnow

If that doesn't work, then ...

        set (findall (gcf, "-property", "fontname"), "Helvetica")
        drawnow

If that doesn't work, then ...

        set (findall (gcf, "-property", "fontname"), "Geneva")
        drawnow

If that doesn't work, then ...

        set (findall (gcf, "-property", "fontname"), "Times")
        drawnow

Hopefully, some of the above does the trick.

Ben