Re: greek characters with fltk graphical toolkit from octave

[Philippe Piot]

Ben: Thank you. Yes: mac OS10.8 ;-)...

All: Does anybody know if octave 3.8.x is available under macport? I
checked and they still seems to be with 3.6.4.

Thanks! -- Philippe.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
> On Mar 03, 2014, at 06:28 AM, Philippe Piot <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> I recently switched from the gnuplot to the fltk toolkit for
> graphical display with octave 3.6.4 following a suggestion as I was
> trying to have better control over label positions etc...
> I am running under mac OS 3.8
>
>
> Maybe Mac OS 10.8?
>
> and noticed that the usual greek
> symbol insertion using the tex interpreter does not work in my case.
> Is there anything special I should do when attempting to use greek
> symbols in, e.g., labels?
> For instance
> xlabel ('t (\mu s)') works well with gnuplot (i.e. it displays the
> \mu symbol correctly) while it displays a '\mu' string instead of the
> corresponding symbol when used in fltk.
>
> Right now I just invoke graphics_toolkit fltk to sart the fltk
> toolkit and do not set any other option(s). Thank you very much for
> any help,
>
> -- Philippe.
>
>
> The FLTK graphics toolkit for Octave 3.6.4 did not support Greek letters.
> Support for Greek letters has recently been added to the developers sources.
> It is possible that the next release (3.8.x) includes this, but I'm not sure
> (my computer is out for repair, so I am unable to check).
>
> Ben