Re: [OctDev] Re: 'text' problems

[Laurent M. <lau...@mo...>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:28:56 +0200
Stefan van der Walt <st...@su...> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:12:40AM -0600, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> > atstr = sprintf("%f,%f", position(1),position(2));
> > 
> > str = sprintf("%f", 1e-9) 
> > results in ... 0!
> > 
> > The following patch seems to work for me:
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > --- text.m.orig 2004-12-03 10:08:10.000000000 +0100
> > +++ text.m      2004-12-03 10:08:42.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -147,9 +147,9 @@
> >      font = "";
> >    endif
> >    if position(3)!=0,
> > -    atstr = sprintf("%f,%f,%f", position(1),position(2),position(3));
> > +    atstr = sprintf("%e,%e,%e", position(1),position(2),position(3));
> >    else
> > -    atstr = sprintf("%f,%f", position(1),position(2));
> > +    atstr = sprintf("%e,%e", position(1),position(2));
> >    endif
> >    command = sprintf('gset label "%s" at %s %s %s %s%s',
> >                     str, units, atstr, align, rotate, font);
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> If you do that, bigger numbers will also be printed in engineering
> notation.  I.e.
> 
> octave:22> sprintf("%e\n", 1024)
> ans = 1.024000e+03


May we use sprintf("%g\n", 1024) ?

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