Re: Tikz backend

[Ben Abbott]

On May 10, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Reza Housseini wrote:

> 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

If the error is from one of Octave's functions then please provide more 
information.

Ben