Re: Tikz backend

[Ben Abbott]

On May 10, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> 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

Looks like a trival bug in matlab2tikz. You can fix it be editing matlab2tikz.m 
and replacing "split = spit(" with "split = strsplit("

The two instances are in the function isVersionBelow

Ben