On May 10, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Ben Abbott <
address@hidden> wrote:
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> On May 10, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> If the error is from matlab2tikz, then please report the error to the matlab2tikz forum below.
>
>
http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/forum/12
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> If the error is from one of Octave's functions then please provide more information.
>
> Ben
>
> It's a missing function in my installed Octave. In the manual
http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/textbooks/octave/octave_6.html is the function "split" mentioned. But when I type split on the command window comes this: error: `split' undefined
> My question was, if I should install additional packages to use the function split?
>
> Reza