Re: tikz terminal

[Dingwen Yuan]

Hi Ben,

It works now. The octave version 3.2.2 can work correctly with gnuplot
version 4.2.5 (patched with lua terminal) to produce tikz plots.

Thanks!

regards,

Dingwen

2010/1/18 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>  On Monday, January 18, 2010, at 10:17AM, "Dingwen Yuan" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>Hi Ben,
>>
>>When I execute drawnow ('lua', 'plot.tikz', false, 'gnuplot.gp'), it outputs
>>"
>>set terminal lua
>>                      ^
>>         line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set
>>terminal' for a list
>>
>>         line 0: No terminal defined
>>".
>>But actually, I have managed to install the lua terminal for gnuplot.
>>I don't know whether it's octave does not use the default gunplot
>>(version 4.2 patch 6, on which set terminal lua returns successfully).
>>I installed octave by directly calling "apt-get install octave-3.2",
>>do I need to do a build from source, or is there any way to set the
>>gnuplot that octave uses?
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Dingwen
>
> From Octave's command line type "help EXEC_PATH"
>
> octave:2> help EXEC_PATH
>  -- Built-in Function: VAL = EXEC_PATH ()
>  -- Built-in Function: OLD_VAL = EXEC_PATH (NEW_VAL)
>     Query or set the internal variable that specifies a colon separated
>     list of directories to search when executing external programs.
>     Its initial value is taken from the environment variable
>     `OCTAVE_EXEC_PATH' (if it exists) or `PATH', but that value can be
>     overridden by the command line argument `--exec-path PATH'.  At
>     startup, an additional set of directories (including the shell
>     PATH) is appended to the path specified in the environment or on
>     the command line.  If you use the `EXEC_PATH' function to modify
>     the path, you should take care to preserve these additional
>     directories.
>
> Using this function you can modify octave's shell path. If the version of 
> gnuplot you've built shows up first then you should be ok.
>
> On unix systems you can check which gnuplot octave will use by typing 'system 
> ("which gnuplot")'
>
> Ben
>
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