Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer
jbrandme...@earthlink.net wrote:
 I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
 with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
 as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
 Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.

 So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
 file that attempts to use the file as input.



I'm testing this in Ubuntu. I am NOT testme it with LyX, since give
us a LaTeX file testme.tex. Using your example code, I do get 2
graphs, one complete, one a skeleton. The second inclusion in your
file is a mistake.  With the attached testme.tex, I get good dvi
output with latex testme.tex and if I create a pdf version of your
eps file and run pdf latex thus:

$ epstopdf tangent_impulse.eps
$ pdflatex testme.tex

Then I get good output as well.  This makes me believe the problems
you are having trace back to the availability of fonts to your LaTeX
processing system or your pdf viewer.

I also attach a LyX file pjtest.lyx  I created that DOES work to
include the tangent_impulse graphics and LaTeX markup.  For me, the
only required change from a basic lyx doc was to put
\usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble. I get both dvi and pdf output
that are fine.

HTH
pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas


testme.tex
Description: TeX document


testme.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


pjtest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer
jbrandme...@earthlink.net wrote:
 I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
 with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
 as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
 Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.

 So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
 file that attempts to use the file as input.



I'm testing this in Ubuntu. I am NOT testme it with LyX, since give
us a LaTeX file testme.tex. Using your example code, I do get 2
graphs, one complete, one a skeleton. The second inclusion in your
file is a mistake.  With the attached testme.tex, I get good dvi
output with latex testme.tex and if I create a pdf version of your
eps file and run pdf latex thus:

$ epstopdf tangent_impulse.eps
$ pdflatex testme.tex

Then I get good output as well.  This makes me believe the problems
you are having trace back to the availability of fonts to your LaTeX
processing system or your pdf viewer.

I also attach a LyX file pjtest.lyx  I created that DOES work to
include the tangent_impulse graphics and LaTeX markup.  For me, the
only required change from a basic lyx doc was to put
\usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble. I get both dvi and pdf output
that are fine.

HTH
pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas


testme.tex
Description: TeX document


testme.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


pjtest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Brandmeyer
 wrote:
> I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
> with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
> as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
> Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.
>
> So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
> file that attempts to use the file as input.
>


I'm testing this in Ubuntu. I am NOT "testme" it with LyX, since give
us a LaTeX file "testme.tex". Using your example code, I do get 2
graphs, one complete, one a skeleton. The second inclusion in your
file is a mistake.  With the attached "testme.tex", I get good dvi
output with "latex testme.tex" and if I create a pdf version of your
eps file and run pdf latex thus:

$ epstopdf tangent_impulse.eps
$ pdflatex testme.tex

Then I get good output as well.  This makes me believe the problems
you are having trace back to the availability of fonts to your LaTeX
processing system or your pdf viewer.

I also attach a LyX file "pjtest.lyx"  I created that DOES work to
include the tangent_impulse graphics and LaTeX markup.  For me, the
only required change from a basic lyx doc was to put
\usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble. I get both dvi and pdf output
that are fine.

HTH
pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas


testme.tex
Description: TeX document


testme.dvi
Description: TeX dvi file


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


pjtest.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@... writes:

 
() 
 Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
 think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
 texlive.
 
 Thanks for the help.
 
 -Jonathan

Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:
% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@... writes:

 
 I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
 with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
 as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
 Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.
 


Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:

% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

peter kint wrote:


% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 


Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)


(Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)

First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.

In LyX, go to Tools  Preferences  File Handling  Converters and 
select (highlight) the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter. 
In the Converter: entry, change pdflatex $$i to pdflatex 
--shell-escape $$i and save it.  See if that helps.


If it does, you might consider a fancier solution.  You could go to 
Tools  Preferences  File Handling  File formats and create a new 
format (let's call it PDF (with plots)), then back to ...  Converters 
and create a LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (with plots) converter using the 
converter syntax above (and return the first converter to its original 
syntax).  You would then use View  PDF (with plots) rather than View 
 PDF (pdflatex) to view files with gnuplots in them (and similarly 
with file export). The reason for doing this would be security -- it 
would allow shell escapes only for documents where you knew you needed 
them. FWIW, I think the low security approach is pretty safe unless you 
have a habit of including raw LaTeX files from unverified sources in 
your documents.


/Paul

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Paul A. Rubin ru...@... writes:


 (Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)
 
 First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.
 
 In LyX, go to Tools  Preferences  File Handling  Converters and 

 /Paul
 
Hi Paul,
Your first suggestion did not work.
At compiling he gives an:which he did not give before:

 File does not exist:
 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T15846/lyx_tmpbuf2/ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst.pdf
   (ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst is the name of my file)

But my feeling is you are on the right track...

The problem now is that I cant compile any lyx-file anymore :-)
So , for the moment I'll try to get back to my previous Lyx-configuration.
Thanks for helping, you made me feel as if I'm 'pretty close'
Peter 

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@... writes:

 
() 
 Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
 think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
 texlive.
 
 Thanks for the help.
 
 -Jonathan

Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:
% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@... writes:

 
 I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
 with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
 as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
 Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.
 


Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:

% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

peter kint wrote:


% WARNING
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 


Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)


(Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)

First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.

In LyX, go to Tools  Preferences  File Handling  Converters and 
select (highlight) the LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter. 
In the Converter: entry, change pdflatex $$i to pdflatex 
--shell-escape $$i and save it.  See if that helps.


If it does, you might consider a fancier solution.  You could go to 
Tools  Preferences  File Handling  File formats and create a new 
format (let's call it PDF (with plots)), then back to ...  Converters 
and create a LaTeX (pdflatex) - PDF (with plots) converter using the 
converter syntax above (and return the first converter to its original 
syntax).  You would then use View  PDF (with plots) rather than View 
 PDF (pdflatex) to view files with gnuplots in them (and similarly 
with file export). The reason for doing this would be security -- it 
would allow shell escapes only for documents where you knew you needed 
them. FWIW, I think the low security approach is pretty safe unless you 
have a habit of including raw LaTeX files from unverified sources in 
your documents.


/Paul

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Paul A. Rubin ru...@... writes:


 (Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)
 
 First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.
 
 In LyX, go to Tools  Preferences  File Handling  Converters and 

 /Paul
 
Hi Paul,
Your first suggestion did not work.
At compiling he gives an:which he did not give before:

 File does not exist:
 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T15846/lyx_tmpbuf2/ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst.pdf
   (ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst is the name of my file)

But my feeling is you are on the right track...

The problem now is that I cant compile any lyx-file anymore :-)
So , for the moment I'll try to get back to my previous Lyx-configuration.
Thanks for helping, you made me feel as if I'm 'pretty close'
Peter 

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer  writes:

> 
() 
> Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
> think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
> texlive.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> -Jonathan

Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:
% <<>>
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Jonathan Brandmeyer  writes:

> 
> I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
> with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
> as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
> Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.
> 


Hi,
I'm not a Latex/lyx expert but I have the same kind of problems with
GNUPLOT in Lyx as you have.

I've been searching for a solution for centuries, and for me it boils
down to this:

% <<>>
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 

Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)
Peter

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Paul A. Rubin]

peter kint wrote:


% <<>>
% PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
% tan, cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh
% Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
% GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external
% programs  by
% Adding the following option to your compiler
% shell-escapeORenable-write18
% Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex 


Maybe this is some help to you.
My question to you is: How do you add such a command to your compiler?
(I wouldn't know where to start, I'm only using Linux for 3 months now)


(Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)

First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.

In LyX, go to Tools > Preferences > File Handling > Converters and 
select (highlight) the "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" converter. 
In the "Converter:" entry, change "pdflatex $$i" to "pdflatex 
--shell-escape $$i" and save it.  See if that helps.


If it does, you might consider a fancier solution.  You could go to 
Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File formats and create a new 
format (let's call it "PDF (with plots)"), then back to ... > Converters 
and create a "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (with plots)" converter using the 
converter syntax above (and return the first converter to its original 
syntax).  You would then use "View > PDF (with plots)" rather than "View 
> PDF (pdflatex)" to view files with gnuplots in them (and similarly 
with file export). The reason for doing this would be security -- it 
would allow shell escapes only for documents where you knew you needed 
them. FWIW, I think the low security approach is pretty safe unless you 
have a habit of including raw LaTeX files from unverified sources in 
your documents.


/Paul

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[peter kint]

Paul A. Rubin  writes:


> (Disclaimer:  I have not tried this myself, since I don't use gnuplot.)
> 
> First, you obviously need to have gnuplot installed and working.
> 
> In LyX, go to Tools > Preferences > File Handling > Converters and 

> /Paul
 
Hi Paul,
Your first suggestion did not work.
At compiling he gives an:which he did not give before:

 File does not exist:
 /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.T15846/lyx_tmpbuf2/ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst.pdf
   (ex_fys_5aso_2u_kerst is the name of my file)

But my feeling is you are on the right track...

The problem now is that I cant compile any lyx-file anymore :-)
So , for the moment I'll try to get back to my previous Lyx-configuration.
Thanks for helping, you made me feel as if I'm 'pretty close'
Peter 

Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.

So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
file that attempts to use the file as input.

Various tutorials, like
http://psung.blogspot.com/2007/03/gnuplot-plots-in-latex.html suggest
that this should work. However, I only get the labels and axes in the
generated output, and none of the graphics. This happens regardless of
the type of output generated by Lyx (PDF, DVI, or PS). If I manually
\includegraphics the EPS, then it gets placed underneath the proper text
as though it was a second figure or something.

If I manually run latex on the plain LaTeX exported by Lyx, then the
results are even stranger. The console output reports errors about an
overfull \hbox. The graphics are displayed, as is the text for the
legend, but the axes are not displayed.

This is intensely frustrating.  How is \input supposed to work?  Its not
like I'm using ERT or anything like that.  A minimal example that
demonstrates the problem is attached.

Thanks,
-Jonathan Brandmeyer

OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
Lyx: 1.6.4
Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
attachment: tangent_impulse.eps% GNUPLOT: LaTeX picture with Postscript
\begingroup
  \makeatletter
  \providecommand\color[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package color not loaded in conjunction with
  terminal option `colourtext'%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{Either use 'blacktext' in gnuplot or load the package
  color.sty in LaTeX.}%
\renewcommand\color[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\includegraphics[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package graphicx or graphics not loaded%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{The gnuplot epslatex terminal needs graphicx.sty or graphics.sty.}%
\renewcommand\includegraphics[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\rotatebox[2]{#2}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpcolor}{%
\newif\ifGPcolor
\GPcolorfalse
  }{}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpblacktext}{%
\newif\ifGPblacktext
\GPblacktexttrue
  }{}%
  % define a \...@addto@macro without @ in the name:
  \let\gplgaddtomacr...@addto@macro
  % define empty templates for all commands taking text:
  \gdef\gplbacktext{}%
  \gdef\gplfronttext{}%
  \makeatother
  \ifGPblacktext
% no textcolor at all
\def\colorrgb#1{}%
\def\colorgray#1{}%
  \else
% gray or color?
\ifGPcolor
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color[rgb]{#1}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0.3,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0.5,0.5,0.5}}%
\else
  % gray
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color{black}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color{black}}%
\fi
  \fi
  \setlength{\unitlength}{0.0500bp}%
  \begin{picture}(7200.00,5040.00)%
\gplgaddtomacro\gplbacktext{%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,704){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}0}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1303){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1902){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,2500){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3099){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3698){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2500}}%
  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Julien Rioux]

From: Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@earthlink.net

 However, I only get the labels and axes in the
 generated output, and none of the graphics.

...
 Thanks,
 -Jonathan Brandmeyer

 OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
 Lyx: 1.6.4
 Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6


Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also tried
under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the axis ticks and
labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I use dvips it does
produce a postscript file where everything displays properly. Maybe check
which viewer you are using, it might be a bug with that particular
application?

Julien


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 18:18 -0500, Julien Rioux wrote:
 
 From: Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@earthlink.net
 However, I only get the labels and axes in the
 generated output, and none of the graphics.
 
 ...
 Thanks,
 -Jonathan Brandmeyer
 
 OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
 Lyx: 1.6.4
 Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
 
 Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also
 tried under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the
 axis ticks and labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I
 use dvips it does produce a postscript file where everything displays
 properly. Maybe check which viewer you are using, it might be a bug
 with that particular application?

Thank you for the extensive list of programs for testing purposes.  For
reference, evince displays the PDF you sent me just fine.

When I ran dvips on the LyX-generated DVI I received the following
useful error:

quote
dvips: Unknown keyword (project/latex//radial_impulse_latex.eps...) in
\special will be ignored
dvips: Could not find figure file /home/jonathan/courses/mae521/final;
continuing.
Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in -R2
mode.
] 
/quote

/me jumps up and down screaming.  Yes, this means that something in my
LaTeX stack doesn't work well with whitespace in directory names (one of
the parents of the working directory is final project).  After
renaming that folder with an underscore in the space's place, we have
the following status:
- Postscript output from LyX works fine and looks good.
- PDF output from LyX works fine.  The vertical text has an oddly broken
appearance, but that could be a rendering bug.
- In the DVI output, the y-axis label is not rotated 90 deg, it is
horizontal when viewed with xdvi.  However, after conversion to .ps the
file looks good. 

Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
texlive.

Thanks for the help.

-Jonathan

Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.

So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
file that attempts to use the file as input.

Various tutorials, like
http://psung.blogspot.com/2007/03/gnuplot-plots-in-latex.html suggest
that this should work. However, I only get the labels and axes in the
generated output, and none of the graphics. This happens regardless of
the type of output generated by Lyx (PDF, DVI, or PS). If I manually
\includegraphics the EPS, then it gets placed underneath the proper text
as though it was a second figure or something.

If I manually run latex on the plain LaTeX exported by Lyx, then the
results are even stranger. The console output reports errors about an
overfull \hbox. The graphics are displayed, as is the text for the
legend, but the axes are not displayed.

This is intensely frustrating.  How is \input supposed to work?  Its not
like I'm using ERT or anything like that.  A minimal example that
demonstrates the problem is attached.

Thanks,
-Jonathan Brandmeyer

OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
Lyx: 1.6.4
Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
attachment: tangent_impulse.eps% GNUPLOT: LaTeX picture with Postscript
\begingroup
  \makeatletter
  \providecommand\color[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package color not loaded in conjunction with
  terminal option `colourtext'%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{Either use 'blacktext' in gnuplot or load the package
  color.sty in LaTeX.}%
\renewcommand\color[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\includegraphics[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package graphicx or graphics not loaded%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{The gnuplot epslatex terminal needs graphicx.sty or graphics.sty.}%
\renewcommand\includegraphics[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\rotatebox[2]{#2}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpcolor}{%
\newif\ifGPcolor
\GPcolorfalse
  }{}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpblacktext}{%
\newif\ifGPblacktext
\GPblacktexttrue
  }{}%
  % define a \...@addto@macro without @ in the name:
  \let\gplgaddtomacr...@addto@macro
  % define empty templates for all commands taking text:
  \gdef\gplbacktext{}%
  \gdef\gplfronttext{}%
  \makeatother
  \ifGPblacktext
% no textcolor at all
\def\colorrgb#1{}%
\def\colorgray#1{}%
  \else
% gray or color?
\ifGPcolor
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color[rgb]{#1}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0.3,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0.5,0.5,0.5}}%
\else
  % gray
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color{black}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color{black}}%
\fi
  \fi
  \setlength{\unitlength}{0.0500bp}%
  \begin{picture}(7200.00,5040.00)%
\gplgaddtomacro\gplbacktext{%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,704){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}0}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1303){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1902){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,2500){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3099){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3698){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2500}}%
  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Julien Rioux]

From: Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@earthlink.net

 However, I only get the labels and axes in the
 generated output, and none of the graphics.

...
 Thanks,
 -Jonathan Brandmeyer

 OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
 Lyx: 1.6.4
 Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6


Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also tried
under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the axis ticks and
labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I use dvips it does
produce a postscript file where everything displays properly. Maybe check
which viewer you are using, it might be a bug with that particular
application?

Julien


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 18:18 -0500, Julien Rioux wrote:
 
 From: Jonathan Brandmeyer jbrandme...@earthlink.net
 However, I only get the labels and axes in the
 generated output, and none of the graphics.
 
 ...
 Thanks,
 -Jonathan Brandmeyer
 
 OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
 Lyx: 1.6.4
 Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
 
 Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also
 tried under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the
 axis ticks and labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I
 use dvips it does produce a postscript file where everything displays
 properly. Maybe check which viewer you are using, it might be a bug
 with that particular application?

Thank you for the extensive list of programs for testing purposes.  For
reference, evince displays the PDF you sent me just fine.

When I ran dvips on the LyX-generated DVI I received the following
useful error:

quote
dvips: Unknown keyword (project/latex//radial_impulse_latex.eps...) in
\special will be ignored
dvips: Could not find figure file /home/jonathan/courses/mae521/final;
continuing.
Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in -R2
mode.
] 
/quote

/me jumps up and down screaming.  Yes, this means that something in my
LaTeX stack doesn't work well with whitespace in directory names (one of
the parents of the working directory is final project).  After
renaming that folder with an underscore in the space's place, we have
the following status:
- Postscript output from LyX works fine and looks good.
- PDF output from LyX works fine.  The vertical text has an oddly broken
appearance, but that could be a rendering bug.
- In the DVI output, the y-axis label is not rotated 90 deg, it is
horizontal when viewed with xdvi.  However, after conversion to .ps the
file looks good. 

Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
texlive.

Thanks for the help.

-Jonathan

Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

I am having difficulty using Gnuplot's epslatex output in conjunction
with Lyx. Gnuplot itself is capable of separately providing EPS graphics
as well as text and labels as Tex code. Strictly speaking, I'm using
Octave as a front-end to Gnuplot, but that shouldn't matter.

So, I have the .tex and the .eps files produced by gnuplot, and a .lyx
file that attempts to use the file as input.

Various tutorials, like
http://psung.blogspot.com/2007/03/gnuplot-plots-in-latex.html suggest
that this should work. However, I only get the labels and axes in the
generated output, and none of the graphics. This happens regardless of
the type of output generated by Lyx (PDF, DVI, or PS). If I manually
\includegraphics the EPS, then it gets placed underneath the proper text
as though it was a second figure or something.

If I manually run latex on the plain LaTeX exported by Lyx, then the
results are even stranger. The console output reports errors about an
overfull \hbox. The graphics are displayed, as is the text for the
legend, but the axes are not displayed.

This is intensely frustrating.  How is \input supposed to work?  Its not
like I'm using ERT or anything like that.  A minimal example that
demonstrates the problem is attached.

Thanks,
-Jonathan Brandmeyer

OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
Lyx: 1.6.4
Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
<>% GNUPLOT: LaTeX picture with Postscript
\begingroup
  \makeatletter
  \providecommand\color[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package color not loaded in conjunction with
  terminal option `colourtext'%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{Either use 'blacktext' in gnuplot or load the package
  color.sty in LaTeX.}%
\renewcommand\color[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\includegraphics[2][]{%
\GenericError{(gnuplot) \space\space\spa...@spaces}{%
  Package graphicx or graphics not loaded%
}{See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.%
}{The gnuplot epslatex terminal needs graphicx.sty or graphics.sty.}%
\renewcommand\includegraphics[2][]{}%
  }%
  \providecommand\rotatebox[2]{#2}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpcolor}{%
\newif\ifGPcolor
\GPcolorfalse
  }{}%
  \...@ifundefined{ifgpblacktext}{%
\newif\ifGPblacktext
\GPblacktexttrue
  }{}%
  % define a \...@addto@macro without @ in the name:
  \let\gplgaddtomacr...@addto@macro
  % define empty templates for all commands taking text:
  \gdef\gplbacktext{}%
  \gdef\gplfronttext{}%
  \makeatother
  \ifGPblacktext
% no textcolor at all
\def\colorrgb#1{}%
\def\colorgray#1{}%
  \else
% gray or color?
\ifGPcolor
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color[rgb]{#1}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,1,1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,1,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0,0,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color[rgb]{1,0.3,0}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color[rgb]{0.5,0.5,0.5}}%
\else
  % gray
  \def\colorrgb#1{\color{black}}%
  \def\colorgray#1{\color[gray]{#1}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTw\endcsname{\color{white}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTb\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LTa\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT0\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT1\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT2\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT3\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT4\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT5\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT6\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT7\endcsname{\color{black}}%
  \expandafter\def\csname LT8\endcsname{\color{black}}%
\fi
  \fi
  \setlength{\unitlength}{0.0500bp}%
  \begin{picture}(7200.00,5040.00)%
\gplgaddtomacro\gplbacktext{%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,704){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}0}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1303){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,1902){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,2500){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}1500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3099){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2000}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  \put(1210,3698){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\strut{}2500}}%
  \colorrgb{0.00,0.00,0.00}%
  

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Julien Rioux]

From: Jonathan Brandmeyer 

> However, I only get the labels and axes in the
> generated output, and none of the graphics.

...
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan Brandmeyer
>
> OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
> Lyx: 1.6.4
> Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
>

Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also tried
under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the axis ticks and
labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I use dvips it does
produce a postscript file where everything displays properly. Maybe check
which viewer you are using, it might be a bug with that particular
application?

Julien


testme.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Lyx + gnuplot epslatex

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 18:18 -0500, Julien Rioux wrote:
> 
> From: Jonathan Brandmeyer 
> However, I only get the labels and axes in the
> generated output, and none of the graphics.
> 
> ...
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan Brandmeyer
> 
> OS: Debian Sid on x86_64
> Lyx: 1.6.4
> Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 6
> 
> Your files compile as advertised with MikTeX 2.8 under winXP. I also
> tried under ubuntu 9.10 and found that evince fails to display the
> axis ticks and labels. xdvi shows everything fine, and in fact if I
> use dvips it does produce a postscript file where everything displays
> properly. Maybe check which viewer you are using, it might be a bug
> with that particular application?

Thank you for the extensive list of programs for testing purposes.  For
reference, evince displays the PDF you sent me just fine.

When I ran dvips on the LyX-generated DVI I received the following
useful error:


dvips: Unknown keyword (project/latex/"/radial_impulse_latex.eps...) in
\special will be ignored
dvips: Could not find figure file /home/jonathan/courses/mae521/final;
continuing.
Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in -R2
mode.
] 


/me jumps up and down screaming.  Yes, this means that something in my
LaTeX stack doesn't work well with whitespace in directory names (one of
the parents of the working directory is "final project").  After
renaming that folder with an underscore in the space's place, we have
the following status:
- Postscript output from LyX works fine and looks good.
- PDF output from LyX works fine.  The vertical text has an oddly broken
appearance, but that could be a rendering bug.
- In the DVI output, the y-axis label is not rotated 90 deg, it is
horizontal when viewed with xdvi.  However, after conversion to .ps the
file looks good. 

Since the latex produced by lyx only uses relative path names, I don't
think that the error is in Lyx - it is in some program distributed with
texlive.

Thanks for the help.

-Jonathan