Re: [GLE-general] tex formatting of tick labels

[Jan S. <jan...@cs...>]

Dear Luca,

> in the documentation I haven't found any way to use latex for 
> typesetting the tick labels. There exists the texlabels setting, but it 
> seems to affect only axis labels (titles) and not tick labels. Have I 
> overlooked something?

It is correct that GLE cannot use LaTeX to typeset the tick labels.

Do you want it to typeset the tick labels for document consistency or to 
be able to typeset formula? (I usually go with "set font texcmr".)

I'm sorry that you have so many problems with GLE.

> If this option indeed doesn't exist, I could look at the code to see if 
> I am able to implement it myself (maybe based on what "set texlabels" 
> do?).

That would be great!

Search axis.cpp for "\\tex{". Basically, the setting wraps \tex{} around 
the titles before writing them so that they are typeset with LaTeX. You 
could do the same for the tick labels in the same file.

If you want to add a new setting for this, then you best grep the code for 
"TEX_LABELS" and "tex_labels". You will need to make a small change to 
run.cpp and pass.cpp. (I'm sorry about the huge switch statements here, 
this is still pretty old code and should be replaced at some point with a 
more modern object oriented design.)

Good luck!

Best Wishes,

Jan.