Edit=>Insert LaTeX Formula¶

(TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald E. Knuth.)

This command inserts LaTeX-formulas into the active document page.

A formula is typed in text form as follows:

$$\int_{0}^{\infty} x^2 e^{-x^2} dx = \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{4}$$


The created formula will be inserted into the document page as a high resolution bitmap (png) with 600 dpi.

To modify the formula, double-click the bitmap with the mouse.

More documtation about Latex can be found here http://www.latex-project.org/.

Installation¶

Check if latex.exe and dvipng.exe are installed on your computer or if they are available on your network:

c:\> dvipng -version

dvipng 1.9
kpathsea version 3.3.2
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
named COPYING and dvipng.c.

c:\> latex -version

MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.7.3235 (1.40.9) (MiKTeX 2.7)
Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh
TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.


If Latex is not installed it is recommended to in install the free Latex distribution MiKTeX (http://www.miktex.org) from Christian Schenk. The setup program can be find here: http://www.miktex.org/2.9/setup. dvipng.exe is included.

There also a portable edition of MikTeX available (http://miktex.org/portable/about). It can be used from a USB stick without administrator privilieges. The path to the installation can be set in the UniPlot command window View=>Command Window). The following commands sets path, where j: is the drive letter of your USB stick:

* WriteProfileString("Settings", "latex-path", "j:\\miktex\\bin");


Check the set-up:

* _latex_find()
j:\miktex\bin\latex.exe
j:\miktex\bin\dvipng.exe


UniPlot saves temporary files in the user directory of UniPlot. If the path name contains spaces it may cause problems with some TeX distributions. In this case you can specify the name of new existing directory without spaces with the following command:

* WriteProfileString("settings", "latex_temp_path", "c:/temp");


Example¶

\begin{pmatrix}
4 & 7 \\
2 & 5
\end{pmatrix}
\cdot
\begin{pmatrix}
x_{1} \\
x_{2}
\end{pmatrix}
=
\begin{pmatrix}
1 \\
4
\end{pmatrix}


You can also write normal text with Latex and include a formula
like the following $\sum^{n}_{k=0}\frac{k}{2}$ into the text.


You can also write normal text with Latex and include a formula like the following into the text.

Notes¶

• The interface to Latex is written in UniScript. You find the source code in the file script\drawing\latex.ic.

• If you insert or modify a formula for the first time it can take some minutes until the formula is displayed, because MiKTeX will download packages used in the formula.

• Fomulas in Wikipaedia (see for example FFT) are written in Latex. The formulas in this manual are also created using Latex. The formulas in the UniPlot PDF manual (see http://www.uniplot.de/documents/en/download.html) are completely created with Latex.

• In this version Latex cannot be used for axes tick labels, axes labels, table cells and dataset. To work around this limitation create a latex formula and replace the element with it.

• The UniScript interface contains the following functions (documentation is missing in this version):

hLatex = latex_create()
hLatex = latex_create(hLatex)
hLatex = latex_create(ssText)
ssText = latex_gettext(hLatex)
bool = latex_settext(hLatex, ssText)
bool = latex_get_rotate90(hImage)
bool = latex_set_rotate90(hImage, bRot)
bool = latex_check_install(bQuite)
bool = latex_destroy(hLatex)

• Before the formula is send to Latex the following header is inserted in front of the formula text:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}
\newcommand{\mx}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Matrix command
\newcommand{\vc}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Vector command
\newcommand{\T}{\text{T}}                % Transpose
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}


The header can be modified using the WriteProfileString function. Example:

ssHeader = "[[
\documentclass[fleqn,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}
\newcommand{\mx}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Matrix command
\newcommand{\vc}[1]{\mathbf{\bm{#1}}} % Vector command
\newcommand{\T}{\text{T}}                % Transpose
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
]]";