Re: Scaling distance between xlabel/ylabel and axes

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Tobias Schmid wrote:
> 
>> Am 21.10.2010 16:37, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Katzenman wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> yes, that ist exactly what I'm looking for.
>>>> I just need to get a proper scaling for one plot.
>>>> 
>>>> An fontsize and type is not important, because I'm gonig to replace it,
>>>> using \psfrag in LaTex.
>>>> So for me it is just important to have a scaling, where there is no
>>>> overlapping of x/ylabel and x/yTicks.
>>>> 
>>>> And if it is possible to get a legende without overlapping labels, this
>>>> would be even better.
>>>> If that is not possible, I'll do it without using a legende and discribe 
>>>> the
>>>> curves in the caption of me figure in LaTeX.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>> 
>>>> Tobias
>>>> 
>>> I had considered adding psfrag support to Octave. However, as psfrag is 
>>> rather dated and no longer maintained we decided not to add that support.
>>> 
>>> However, if you are interested in that functionality, I've attached the 
>>> function. This function works with the current developers sources. I 
>>> haven't tried it with the 3.2.x series, but I expect it will work.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if it works well for you. Criticism is welcome.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Hello Ben,
>> 
>> I tried to use your code, but I got the error messages added below.
>> 
>> psfrag(Abbildung ,"test" ,'fontsize', 18 ,'height','\\psfragheight' , 'wid
>> th' , '\\psfragwidth')
>> error: mat2cell: dimension can not be empty
>> error: called from:
>> error: /home/tobias/Diplomarbeit/Octave/psfrag.m at line 342, column 15
>> error: /home/tobias/Diplomarbeit/Octave/psfrag.m at line 236, column 17
>> 
>> Did I forget to hand over the parameter dimension? In the help enty no 
>> parameter called dimension in mentioned?
>> 
>> By the way, would this function solve my problem with the distances between 
>> the labels and the entries of the legende , which are not scalable.
>> 
>> Tobias
> 
> I'll take a look at this tomorrow. In the meantime, does you plot have 
> ticklabels for each visible axes?
> 
> Ben

I found a two incomplete features of Octave 3.2.x that resulted in the error 
you saw with psfrag.m. I've attached a version that detects the version of 
Octave and provides an optional approach.

Regarding your call to psfrag, the proper syntax is ...

psfrag(Abbildung ,"test" ,"fontsize", 18 ,"height","\\psfragheight" , "width" , 
"\\psfragwidth")

or ...

psfrag(Abbildung ,'test' ,'fontsize', 18 ,'height','\psfragheight' , 'width' , 
'\psfragwidth')

Essentially, when using double quotes (") two backslashes are needed. When 
using a single quote (') only one backslash is needed.

Psfrag may not resolve our problem with the overlaping labels.

Ben

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