Re: Treat TeX in plot text in a Matlab compatible matter with gnuplot enhanced mode

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/22/2012 01:34 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 1) Would it be nice to have gnuplot's "enhanced" mode more extensive so
> that is might interpret '\mu', '\lfloor' and so on? Or do you think
> Octave can handle that? X11 terminal is one of many terminals. Would
> Octave gnuplot backend know how to handle, say, png or jpeg terminals?

> 2) Should Octave handle placing $.$ math mode characters behind the
> scenes for pslatex family of output? Or would you like to see an
> 'enhanced' mode for gnuplot pslatex terminals? (I think I'd like the
> latter for consistency in gnuplot as well...could always use the
> 'noenhanced' option for finer control of LaTeX, but I think that would
> be a rare thing.) How should the LaTeX enhanced mode work? Should it
> interpret everything as in math mode? E.g., 'x^2' means $x^2$ for which
> the x comes out italic. Or something similar to X11? E.g., 'x^2' means
> $\mathrm{x}^2$ for which the x comes out non-italic?

Here's a third issue (and a fourth).

3) What is happening with the axis tick labels?  In Octave I'm seeing 
labels like 10^{-4}, 10^{-3}, etc., and there doesn't seem to be any way 
of controlling the string interpreter for those labels.  Is gnuplot 
generating those, or is it Octave?  They too cause an issue with not 
compiling properly in LaTeX.  Do the tick labels fall under 'enhanced'?

4) Should the interpreter setting be inherited from the plot?  That is, 
if I do

p = plot([1:50], [1:50].^2);
set(p, 'interpreter', 'none');
xlabel('x');
ylabel('x^2');

shouldn't the labels then have no interpretation?  Currently they have 
'tex' interpretation regardless of what the plot's interpreter is set to 
previous.

Dan