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Re: Tikz backend


From: Reza Housseini
Subject: Re: Tikz backend
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:48:50 +0200



On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On May 10, 2012, at 1:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently found this talk about the tikz backend Søren programmed. Because I think this is a very elegant way to produce plots out of octave, I wanted to ask if there is any progress in this direction? I've attached the latest source of the code I found.
> Reza
>
> Hi All
> I recently had to produce some graphics using TikZ for a paper. Doing
> this made me realise what a simple way of expressing graphics TikZ
> really is. I just spend an hour or two hacking a TikZ backend for the
> graphics system together. I'm attaching the code.
> To see it in action, run
>   demo print_tikz
> from Octave and
>   pdflatex mytest.tex
> from your shell. This will produce a 'mytest.pdf' for you to look at.
> The code is very incomplete, and I'm not sure if I'll ever have the time
> to finish it, but I thought I'd share anyway.
> Søren
> <print_tikz.m>

Nico Schloemer has written an implementation that supports most plots (I think there are still some 3D features missing).

       http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/matlab2tikz

       https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz

Last year he modified the sources to be compatible with Octave.

Ben


Cool, thank you ben!

The script gave an error, that the string function "split" is undefined. Do I have to install a package or is my installation of Octave broken?


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