Re: Error in print latex standalone

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 09:04:20 -0500, Pantxo wrote:
> Joao Rodrigues wrote
[…]
> > An example from the manual 
> > (https://octave.org/doc/v4.4.0/Printing-and-Saving-Plots.html):
[…]
> > print (hf, "plot15_7.pdf", "-dpdflatexstandalone");
[…]
> 
> This code works for me and I can compile the generated tex file from octave
> using 
> 
> system "pdflatex plot15_7.tex"

Should we change this example in the user manual to make it clear that
the output file will have a .tex file extension rather than a .pdf
extension? When I read through the example script, it looks like Octave
prints directly to a file 'plot15_7.pdf', and a user might not
understand that the following 'pdflatex' command has to be run to build
the final pdf. This would be clearer IMHO:

    print (hf, "plot15_7.tex", "-dpdflatexstandalone");
    system ("pdflatex plot15_7.tex");
    open plot15_7.pdf

What do you think?

-- 
mike

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