Barny said:
I use LATEX for creating good texts containing a lot of maths formulas. Now
I am doing some research about signal analisys and have to put some graphs.
What programms do you recomend for function drowing and analisys and than
inetgrating it wit Latex or may be something else. tia.
There are a lot of ways to approach this but
here is one combination that will work.
1. Use Octave to make the plots: e.g.
x = sort(randn(100,1));
y = x .^2 + 5;
plot(x,y);
%% repeat as needed to get a plot you like, then:
gset terminal postscript
gset output 'myplot.ps'
replot
Octave is a free, Matlab-like numerical computing environment.
See:
http://www.octave.org
2. Use graphicx package in LaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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:
\begin{document}
See Figure~\ref{myplot} for an example of a plot.
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\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[angle=270,width=4in]{myplot.ps}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{myplot}My plot. How nice!}
\end{figure}
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\end{document}
Then: latex mydoc.tex; dvips mydoc -o
I recommend Postscript instead of encapsulated Postscript --
EPS is essentially a bitmap format and it doesn't scale well.
In \includegraphics, you can theoretically put any Postscript
file. However, my experience (painful at times) has been that
some packages produce PS files that work OK and some don't.
You'll have to experiment to find out.
--Western Larch
