Native TikZ backend?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 11, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> lør, 11 07 2009 kl. 09:53 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
>> On 11-Jul-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>>
>> | I'm not sure it's better if you're using gnuplot. But it seems to  
>> me
>> | that minor things get dropped when routing things through gnuplot  
>> from
>> | Octave. We have to express our plots within the limitations of  
>> gnuplot,
>> | which means that sometimes you don't get what you asked for. E.g.
>> | sometimes you don't get the markers on your plot that you asked  
>> for in
>> | Octave. We should be able to avoid such issues if we don't send  
>> things
>> | through gnuplot in the first place.
>>
>> OK, predictible markers would be good.  What about mixing line colors
>> and dashed lines?
>
> Just in case anybody feel like playing with this stuff... The attached
> version supports 'line' and 'axes' objects. It supports all markers  
> and
> line style. It can handle colours (for lines, marker faces, and marker
> edges) and line widths. You can run
>
>  demo print_tikz
>
> to see an awful demo plot.
>
> Søren
> <print_tikz.m>

I just noticed that R now has support for TikZ output

	http://cameron.bracken.bz/node/71

Ben