Re: print.m: support of terminal epslatex?

[Sebastian Schubert]

Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> writes:

> Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>>
>> what do think of supporting the epslatex terminal.
>
> I like the idea.  This is one of my most used output formats.  (Same
> thing for Xfig, i.e., combined PS/LaTeX.)  Although, there are a
> variety of gnuplot TeX related formats, e.g., TeX, LaTeX, etc.  So
> maybe the dev_list name should be "pstex" or "pslatex"?  You could
> still leave the ".tex" extension check, as the combined ps/latex is
> the nicest and most useful variation of all the TeX related outputs.

and John W. Eaton writes:

> Should the option maybe be -depslatex instead?

Ok, I am going to implement the following devices/terminals on this
weekend:
-d 
   epslatex
   pslatex
   pstex
   
   epslatexstandalone

The last one creates a .tex and a .eps file, and

latex file.tex

creates the plot without any need to include it any additional tex file
(customizable with a .cfg file).  This only works with gnuplot 4.2, so
is there any way to check the gnuplot version?

I want to make the epslatex terminal standard for a .tex output without
device.  It worked well for me so far, epstopdf works well and there is
also the epstopdf package.  Any facts I miss?


DJS writes:

>
>>    ## check if we have to use convert
>>    dev_list = {"aifm" "corel" "fig" "png" "pbm" "dxf" "mf" "hpgl", ...
>> -          "ps" "ps2" "psc" "psc2" "eps" "eps2" "epsc" "epsc2" "emf"};
>> +          "ps" "ps2" "psc" "psc2" "eps" "eps2" "epsc" "epsc2" \
>> +          "emf" "tex"};
>
> Why not ... like the line before it rather than \?

Emacs did this. :)  The next patch will have the other version,
although I, personally and as far as I can see, prefer the "\", but I do
not want to change too much...


JWE writes:

> How much work is required to make this function properly if the
> plotting backend is something other than gnuplot?  Though perhaps this
> question applies to other output formats that we currently support as
> well, so maybe it is not important to single out the epslatex
> terminal.

If the backend supported something like the epslatex terminal it should
be as easy or hard as the other terminals, if not it's probably much or
too much work.  I know only gnuplot which has this feature (which I
like a lot).

Sebastian