Re: subplot titles and labels overlap

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Bob Odom <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Philip Hahn wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Philip Hahn <address@hidden> wrote:
>      On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bob Odom <address@hidden> wrote:
> You need to install: epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev
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> Bob,
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>  I also noticed that \tau in figures now shows at "au" instead of the greek 
> letter
> tau. Will those packages fix that as well?
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>  Thanks,
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> OK; I got an error message:
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> title("\tau")
> "warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character '       '"
>  
> Not sure what to do. Thanks,
> philip
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>      philip
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> Philip,
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> I think that "missing glyph" means it can't find, or you don't have, the 
> appropriate fonts
> installed. I would think that in a complete LaTex installation, you should 
> have
> everything installed. Also I think that "fltk" is not quite mature yet. One 
> thing you
> could try is to switch to gnuplot with "graphics_toolkit" and see if the \tau 
> shows up
> properly. If the \tau shows up on the gnuplot, then there may be a 
> configurstion issue
> or a bug with fltk. I can't help there.
> 
> Bob
> Bob (and group),
> 
> Even with gnuplot, I get the ft_render error for missing glyph.
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> octave:11> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:12> close all
> octave:13> plot(1)
> octave:14> title("\tau");
> warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character `    '
> warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character `    '
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> I installed the packages Bob ( epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev ) recommended 
> and I still get the __fltk_redraw__() error. I'm guessing (bob recommended in 
> a direct email) there is a problem with LaTeX. I tried grepping through the 
> config.log but I'm not sure what I am looking for.
> 
> [ trying to get my PhD dissertations figures printed!!! :-) ]
> 
> thanks for the help,
> 
> thanks,
> 
> philip

The FLTK backend does not support LaTeX or TeX. You'll need to use the gnuplot 
backend for pseudo TeX rendering.

What type of output format are you looking to use?

Ben