Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Abdelrazak Younes]

On 29/10/2008 03:23, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2008/10/28 Thomas Weber<address@hidden>:
> > Eh, adding TeX as dependency would be the end to all kind of usage
> > pattern:
>
> Well, it wouldn't have to be a hard dependency. Make it a compile-time
> option.

You could (should?) even make it a runtime option. Octave could check at 
startup whether a LaTeX engine is present on the system or not. Or 
octave could have a configure script that the user can call if you don't 
want to bloat the startup.

>  That seems to be the approach for many other of the larger
> components of Octave. TeX is a standard part of a GNU system anyways.
>
> > using it on small machines
>
> A handheld calculator doesn't really need to produce
> publication-quality plots anyways, does it?
>
> Also, I expect most people who use Octave already use LaTeX or TeX. Or
> am I being naïve?

I am using LyX ;-)

More seriously, anybody serious with scientific plotting (including 
Windows people) wouldn't mind a requirement on LaTeX, even it weigths 300Mb.

Abdel.