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[Henri Girard <address@hidden>]

Le 20/05/2013 20:28, Bill Eaton a écrit :
> Ok. I managed to get inline plotting working in Octave. It's kind of kludgy
> at the moment, but it works. It should work with Matlab as well. Although,
> if there are any differences it is possible to write one set of code that
> autodetects if its running from Octave or Matlab and does the appropriate
> thing.
>
> What I did: Create a file called ps_out.m which contains
>
>         function ps_out(fname)
>           disp( [char(2) 'ps:' fileread(fname)' char(5)] );
>         endfunction
> This is slightly different from my earlier post. I put this file in the same
> folder as a file called "tmrepl.m". In Linux this is found in
> /usr/share/texmacs/TeXmacs/plugins/octave/octave/tm. In Windows, it's buried
> in a C:\Program Files\TexMacs directory.
>
> Here is a minimal example of how you might use this in a session on Linux:
>    cd ~/
>    x=1:10
>    plot(x, x.^2)
>    print 'test.eps' '-S500,300'
>    ps_out('test.eps');
> And voila! You should now have an inline plot. Ha! If you go back and tweak
> things, you can quickly regenerate a 'test.eps' file and update the inline
> plot. It seems to behave well for the 5 minutes of testing I did.
>
> Going forward, if this were to be included in future releases, we could
> leave it as is. Or we could also modify the "tmrepl.m" file to look for
> ps_out. I think the latter would be better, because then the user wouldn't
> have to worry about including or excluding the semicolon on the
> ps_out('test.eps') line.
>
> One minor complaint: the previewed eps image doesn't look all that great. If
> I export the whole document as a PDF file, it looks great. But on screen
> it's a little washed out. I'm not sure if there is any remedy for this.
>
> Bill Eaton
>    
>    
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Eaton [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 7:13 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Texmacs-dev] inline plots
>
>
> I gave my function a try, but what I get is the PostScript text (and not the
> image) printed on the screen. And I think this is because you need to
> intercept the ps_out command that gets sent to Octave/Texcmacs. You need to
> make sure you can control what comes back from Octave to Texmacs.
>
> --Bill
>
>
> On 05/17/2013 07:04 PM, David E. Miller wrote:
> > Bill:
> >
> > Try putting your code in an .m file and then start a TeXmacs Octave
> > session. Load the .m file using the Octave session command line. You
> > may have to change the active directory to where your .m file and EPS
> > file are located on you system.
> >
> > Then try your code on some EPS file of interest.
> >
> > If you can get this to work, then it may merely be a matter of finding
> > the best way to load this file automatically when the Octave plugin
> > code is executed when the session is started. This should be the
> > easier part. Getting the code right for the EPS file to insert inline
> > is the harder part.
> >
> > David Miller
> >
> > On 5/17/2013 5:40 PM, Bill Eaton wrote:
> > > It should be easy to do the same thing in Octave. The ps_out function
> > > in Octave could be:
> > >        function ps_out(fname)
> > >           disp( [char(2); 'ps:';  fileread(fname) ; char(5)] )
> > >        endfunction
> > >
> > > I'm dying to test this out and add more sophisticated error checking,
> > > but I don't know how to hack the appropriate file to look for the
> > > ps_out function. I think it would be in tmrepl.m. If someone can
> > > suggest the appropriate lines to modify, I would greatly appreciate
> > > and be happy to report my findings.
> >
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Hi,
Very nice !
Would it work with maxima or a kind of ?
regards,
Henri