Re: [Gnuplot-info] change backgound in epslatex?

[Jefferson S. E. P. <st...@gm...>]

Didn't resist googling myself. You just have to set the terminal with
a "colortext" option!

 set terminal epslatex color colortext

[]s
Stafusa


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jefferson Stafusa E. Portela
<st...@gm...> wrote:
> Ok, as I'd said, I have no experience with epslatex, so my solution
> isn't elegant... but should work.
>
> First thing is to include a "front" in your label command:
> set label textcolor rgb "white" "HOLA" at -20,-20 front
>
> Then, and here comes the ugly fix, you should edit the 'output.tex'
> file and change the line:
>      \put(2570,1600){\makebox(0,0)[l]{\strut{}HOLA}}%
> to:
>      \put(2570,1600){\makebox(0,0)[l]{\strut{}{\color{white}HOLA}}}%
> as the gnuplot gives (at least to me) the error:
> "Package color not loaded in conjunction with terminal option `colourtext'"
> so the color option is ignored
>
> I'd guess it's easy to google for that to solve this part, but now I
> should go to sleep. :)
>
> []s
> Stafusa
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Pau <vim...@go...> wrote:
>> PS: Sorry .... $1 is the argument to pass, namely the data you will
>> find on that page
>>
>>
>> On 7 March 2012 00:09, Pau <vim...@go...> wrote:
>>> thanks again for  the quick answer....
>>>
>>> I made sure it's within the plotting limits but somehow it does not show up
>>>
>>> You can try my data, if you wish
>>>
>>> http://www.2shared.com/file/TUplOI5P/GasDensityDisc_80.html
>>>
>>> The script I was using with gnuplot is
>>>
>>> ============
>>>  set terminal epslatex color
>>>  set output "output.tex"
>>>  set size square
>>>  set xlabel textcolor rgb "white" "R"
>>>  set ylabel textcolor rgb "white" "R"
>>>  set mxtics 5
>>>  set mytics 5
>>>  set tics out
>>>  set palette defined ( 0 "black", 1 "black", 2 "blue", 3 "blue", 4
>>> "orange", 5 "red", 6 "yellow" )
>>>  set pm3d map
>>>  #set autoscale fix
>>>  set xrange [-30:30]
>>>  set yrange [-30:30]
>>>  set cblabel "${\\rm log}_{10} \\, \\left( \\rho_{\\rm gas} \\right)$"
>>>  set object 1 rectangle front from -30,-30 to 30,30 fc rgb "black" behind
>>>  set label textcolor rgb "white" "HOLA" at -10,-10
>>>  splot "'$1'" binary record=384x128 format="%double" u
>>> ($2*sin($1)):($2*cos($1)):(log10($3)) notitle
>>>  set terminal x11
>>> ============
>>>
>>> thanks again!
>>>
>>> On 6 March 2012 23:48, Jefferson Stafusa E. Portela <st...@gm...> wrote:
>>>> I don't have your data to test your specific example, but that works normally:
>>>>
>>>> set object 1 rectangle front from -30,-30 to 30,30 fc rgb "black" behind
>>>> set label textcolor rgb "white" "HOLA" at -5,-0.5
>>>> plot sin(x) linecolor rgb "white"
>>>>
>>>> You're sure the point -20,-25 is in your plot? If you put the label
>>>> outside the plot it'll be invisible, of course. If that's not the
>>>> problem, I can't think now of anything else.
>>>>
>>>> []s
>>>> Stafusa