Re: superscript, subscript, Greek characters in plot labels?

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Quentin,

* On 27 Oct 2005 * Quentin Spencer wrote:

> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
> >John W. Eaton wrote:
> >
> >>On 27-Oct-2005, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> >>
> >>| A S Hodel wrote:
> >>| > The best answer of the many | > provided involves the use of the 
> >>script fig2ps and a slight modification | > to the octave-forge 
> >>print.m function so that it generates fig files with | > "special" 
> >>text. | | fig2ps takes an option "--forcespecial" so that the text 
> >>need not be | "special" in the .fig file itself.
> >>| | Another thing not yet mentioned is the use of sans serif fonts.  
> >>I | accomplish this with a "sans_fonts.sty" file which contains the 
> >>two lines
> >>| | \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
> >>| \usepackage{sfmath}
> >>| | where sfmath.sty I downloaded from
> >>| | http://dtrx.de/od/tex/sfmath.html
> >>| | Then call fig2ps like this:
> >>| | fig2ps --add=type1cm,sans_fonts figure.fig
> >>| | The package "type1cm" causes latex to use scalable fonts.
> >>
> >>If you are using LaTeX, then why go through the extra fig file format?
> >>Why not use the epslatex terminal?
> >>
> >>jwe
> >>
> >
> >We've had this conversation before :)
> >
> >http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/166
> >
> >It is a matter of personal preference.  I much prefer having 
> >standalone, printable pdf figures.  (I actually use 'fig2pdf' rather 
> >than 'fig2ps.)  These I include in latex documents with 
> >"\includegraphics{}" rather than "\input{}".  Another advantage is 
> >that these figures are easy to submit when submitting documents to 
> >journals.
> 
> 
> When I discovered fig2ps (thanks to Jonathan, I believe), I also moved 
> away from using \input to using \includegraphics for the same reason. 
> The old way worked fine for my makefile-based way of creating latex 
> documents, but publishers always want self-contained figures that are 
> separate from the text of the document. The other benefit of fig2ps is 
> that I sometimes have figures that are drawn in xfig. I can impose a 
> consistent look (same font, for example) on a set of figures (generated 
> by octave or xfig) by using fig2ps with forcespecial and other options, 
> as is done in the examples given by Jonathan and myself.

The pstricks terminal should be a nice option too. And
convertig xfig figures there exist fig2pstricks.

It's my preference right now :-)

Greetings!
Fabian



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