Re: Special|backslash (\) characters are not interpreted when printing to PDF

[tomdylan]

Hi Ben,

thanks you for replying even at late Sunday afternoon!

I am again on a WIN7 machine and, in deed, at the command level of Octave's
prompt
system ('gnuplot') yields information about gnuplot ("system ('which
gnuplot')" yielded problems since "which" >was not accepted as argument)

G N U P L O T
        Version 4.6 patchlevel 4    last modified 2013-10-02
        Build System: MS-Windows 32 bit

        Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2013
        Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

        gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info
        faq, bugs, etc:   type "help FAQ"
        immediate help:   type "help"  (plot window: hit 'h')

I  ran my programme and now no problems with popen2 popped up and the octave
windows appeared however with some differences than before.
Now the special characters are interpreted (/gamma yields the greek
character, see the attached file). however the arrangement of the subplots
has suffered a bit, for example :

the plots titles overwrite the axis labels ,
the "'fontangle', 'italic'" command is not considered at all.
But what is really a drag: "hold on" is not considered though the plot
command is in a loop and should print 3 black, 3 green and 3 red lines on
the subplots:

figure(iH)
subplot(3,2,iv);
plot(pprof(:,nstep),z(:)/H, 'b-','linewidth', 1); hold on;  % head drop dp
grid on;
xlabel('p/{\gamma} [m]','fontsize',11, 'fontangle', 'italic');
ylabel('z/H [-]','fontsize',11, 'fontangle', 'italic');
title(['dh/H=',num2str(dh/H),';  v/k=',num2str(v_k),'; B=0 - 1'],...
'fontsize',11, 'fontangle', 'italic');


<http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4663815/dmy.jpg> 

What a pity! 

In the default graphics_toolkit() fltk-mode everything worked out fine, with
exception of the transfer to PDF/EMF.

Is there any workaround to print vector graphics (EMF would be even better
than PDF) in the fltk-mode?

I could imagine I am not the first one to require such an output device... 
Will the fltk-mode be upgraded to "full" functionality in the next version?

If not, must I use gnuplot commands (pagesize, flip, origin, rotate etc. )
in octave?
Is there a manual or some templates about octave graphical output based on
gnuplot?

Again Thank you for your support, Ben!

Tom




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