Latex Fonts and Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Thomas Markovich wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Thomas Markovich wrote:
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>>> <groundstate1.ps>
>>>
>>> (I attached something, did it work?)
>>>
>>> We just have a few things like that. They're generated through a  
>>> fourier sum. Using psfrag we replaced asd with \varphi and zxc  
>>> with \psi_0^{(+)}(\varphi).
>>>
>>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>
>>>> hmmm ... I'm not certain what you imply by "image". Are you using  
>>>> octave's image toolbox?
>>>>
>>>> So I understand better, can you explain what your figure is  
>>>> illustrating? ... perhaps you can provide a link to something  
>>>> similar?
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>
>> Great, there is a solution to your problem! ... actually more than  
>> one.
>>
>> (1) First a broad solution ...
>>
>> Mac OSX has access to a lot of nice Linux stuff (I'm a Mac OSX user  
>> myself).
>>
>> If haven't already done so, I recommend you install either the Fink  
>> or DarwinPorts package manager. The link below compares the two.
>>
>> 	http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/wiki/index.php/Mac_Users:DarwinPorts_vs_Fink
>>
>> I'm using Fink, but many prefer DarwinPorts.
>>
>> Each of these package managers make installing and updating  
>> software a breeze.
>>
>> If you install xfig
>>
>> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig
>>
>> You can use Octave's "fig" terminal to produce an xfig file that  
>> you can read using xfig and then export the result in various  
>> formats ... which include a PDF/LaTeX format as well as a TIFF  
>> format.
>>
>> I like xfig, but it *may* take some time to get use to. The links  
>> below should be helpful for your problem.
>>
>> 	http://epb.lbl.gov/xfig/frm_printing.html (see the section "xfig  
>> and PDFLaTeX")
>>
>> Each of these package managers can also keep Octave, gnuplot, and  
>> LaTeX up to date!
>>
>> (2) You might also try converting the xfig file to a tikz file  
>> (using fig2tikz)
>>
>> 	http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~meine/software/figpy/#fig2tikz
>>
>> (3) You can try using png/TikZ to solve your problem. This approach  
>> will allow you to produce the figure from within LaTeX.
>>
>> 	http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/gnuplot-basics/
>>
>> (4) You can use my original suggestion
>>
>> 	a) Produce your figure using Octave
>> 	b) Then from Octave's command line, type
>>
>> 		drawnow ("latex", "your_figure.tex")
>>
>> 	c) Include it in your paper using the commands below.
>>
>> 	  \begin{figure}
>> 	    \begin{center}
>> 	      \setlength{\unitlength}{2.54cm}
>> 	      \begin{picture}(6.4,4.8)
>> 	        \input{test.tex}
>> 	      \end{picture}
>> 	    \end{center}
>> 	    \caption{The figure's caption goes here.}
>> 	    \label{fig:label_for_ref}
>> 	  \end{figure}
>>
>> 	Be sure to change the (6.4,4.8) to obtain the figure size you  
>> desire.
>>
>> 	You mentioned that this solution didn't give you want you wanted.  
>> Can you be more specific?
>>
>> Ben
>
> The original solution wasn't so much that it didn't give me what I  
> wanted as it didn't give what the journal wanted. I don't know why  
> they rejected the figures but they did. That was how we did it after  
> having each figure in a .ps form. I'll try to use one of the other  
> options but thank you so much. After an initial look, these look  
> wonderful.

I didn't mean to refer to what you submitted to your publisher, but to  
(4) above

Ben