Setting Octave interpreter to 'tex' - octave

Such a simple question to have wasted an hour or two of my time. The Octave docs allude to setting the interpreter to tex and never say how to do it. I've looked on line and through stackoverflow and haven't found how to do this. I've also looked at the .octaverc files and have seen nothing that would indicate how to turn on the tex edit function. I am using Debian GNUOctave version 4.0.0. Please help.
Gary Roach

The interpreter property is set to "tex" per default for axes, line, text, patch and surface. So changing interpreter makes only sense if you want to switch to "none":
set (findobj (gcf, "-property", "interpreter"), "interpreter", "none")
This sets "interpreter"="none" for al children of the current figure.
If you want to have some fancy latex stuff in your plots and not only simple tex commands you can render it with latex:
close all
graphics_toolkit fltk
sombrero ();
title ("The sombrero function:")
fcn = "$z = \\frac{\\sin\\left(\\sqrt{x^2 + y^2}\\right)}{\\sqrt{x^2 + y^2}}$";
text (0.5, -10, 1.8, fcn, "fontsize", 20);
print -depslatexstandalone sombrero
## process generated files with pdflatex
system ("latex sombrero.tex");
## dvi to ps
system ("dvips sombrero.dvi");
## convert to png
system ("gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=png16m -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r100x100 -dEPSCrop -sOutputFile=sombrero.png sombrero.ps")
which gives:

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GNU Radio + HackRF: RuntimeError: firdes check failed: 0 < fa <= sampling_freq / 2

I just started using GNU Radio, I must say I am quite a noob but I have some background on RF related stuff.
Here's the thing:
I recorded a file that I now want to repeat through my HackRF and GNU Radio.
This is the exact settings for the filter:
The settings you see are casual (since I cannot get it working I started testing with random values).
This is the error I get:
Executing: /usr/bin/python3 -u /home/scare/LAB/RadioFrequencies/GNU Radio/reply_433.py
gr-osmosdr 0.2.0.0 (0.2.0) gnuradio 3.8.2.0
built-in sink types: uhd hackrf bladerf soapy redpitaya file
[INFO] [UHD] linux; GNU C++ version 11.1.0; Boost_107600; UHD_4.0.0.0-0-unknown
Using HackRF One with firmware 2017.02.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/scare/LAB/RadioFrequencies/GNU Radio/reply_433.py", line 211, in <module>
main()
File "/home/scare/LAB/RadioFrequencies/GNU Radio/reply_433.py", line 187, in main
tb = top_block_cls()
File "/home/scare/LAB/RadioFrequencies/GNU Radio/reply_433.py", line 137, in __init__
firdes.high_pass(
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gnuradio/filter/filter_swig.py", line 124, in high_pass
return _filter_swig.firdes_high_pass(*args, **kwargs)
RuntimeError: firdes check failed: 0 < fa <= sampling_freq / 2
Done (return code 1)
Where obviously the interesting part is the RuntimeError: firdes check failed: 0 < fa <= sampling_freq / 2
Unfortunately, I don't get what that 'fa' stands for.
Any idea?
Cheers
I just got done solving this same error. The error is caused by a filter's Cut-off and transition parameters being set incorrectly (in my case far too large). GNU radio handles the variable 'samp_rate' differently for each block and filters seem to interpret it was a point to center the filter on (that's my take on it so don't quote me).
I also looked in the source code and can't find anything helpful on 'fa'
So try adjusting your cutoff to be something below samp_rate and make your transition width something to the tune of 250e3. I used GUI sliders to set the filter how I liked and I will make these permanent in the final version.
Screen Cap of Settings Here
Slider Settings For Both Sliders
Mike Ossmann's "SDR with HackRF One, Lesson 10 - Filters helped" me out here. Also just a great SDR lecture series for GNU radio if you haven't come across them yet. (just make sure to use the QT GUI).
I hope this helped. I am pretty new to GNU so sorry if the explanation is a little half-baked.
fa is the cutoff_frequency in the function that is throwing the error message. The cutoff frequency has to be greater than 0 and no more than the Nyquist limit. There are some functions called sanity_check_xxx (xxx being whether one cutoff or 2, i.e. bandpass, and optionally c for complex) around line 750 in gr_filter/lib/firdes.cc in the GNU Radio repository on GitHub.
In the question the samp_rate would need to be at least 800MHz to support a high pass cutoff of 400Mhz. As far as I can tell sample rate is used the same way in these filter functions as anywhere else in GNU Radio.
I ran into the same error message because I used 'firdes.band_passinstead offirdes.complex_band_pass` and the low cutoff was negative, which it should be for the complex band pass filter.

Make .oct files for distmesh

Distmesh is a popular triangulation routine written by Perrson in matlab. In some cases Persson uses .mex files to speed up the calculations. I want to extend this to octave. I have read https://enacit1.epfl.ch/octave_doc/octave/octave.html/Getting-Started-with-Oct_002dFiles.html and other tutorials and have succesfully made those examples work. Here is a typivcal code from distmesh:
function d=dpoly(p,pv)
% Copyright (C) 2004-2012 Per-Olof Persson. See COPYRIGHT.TXT for details.
np=size(p,1);
nvs=size(pv,1)-1;
ds=dsegment(p,pv);
%ds=zeros(np,nvs);
%for iv=1:nvs
% ds(:,iv)=donesegment(p,pv(iv:iv+1,:));
%end
d=min(ds,[],2);
d=(-1).^(inpolygon(p(:,1),p(:,2),pv(:,1),pv(:,2))).*d;
% MEXED
%function ds=donesegment(p,pv)
%
%e=ones(size(p,1),1);
%
%v=diff(pv,1);
%w=p-e*pv(1,:);
%
%c1=sum(w.*v(e,:),2);
%c2=sum(v(e,:).^2,2);
%
%ds=0*e;
%
%ix=c1<=0;
%ds(ix)=sqrt(sum((p(ix,:)-pv(1*ones(sum(ix),1),:)).^2,2));
%
%ix=c1>=c2;
%ds(ix)=sqrt(sum((p(ix,:)-pv(2*ones(sum(ix),1),:)).^2,2));
%
%ix=c1>0 & c2>c1;
%nix=sum(ix);
%if nix>0
% Pb=ones(nix,1)*pv(1,:)+c1(ix)./c2(ix)*v;
% ds(ix)=sqrt(sum((p(ix,:)-Pb).^2,2));
%end
The task in to convert function d=donesegment(p,v) (everything beneath the line % MEXED) into a .oct file. I am neither a c or cpp programmer, so I don't know what headers need to be includesd, or the statements needed to include them.
John Burkhardt's site has a copy of distmesh that already contains pure-matlab versions of the routines that are written in C++. Specifically dsegment.m is available there. I have run distmesh in octave using that file; it is a little slow but acceptable for small-to-medium size cases.

How to access VHDL signal attributes in ModelSim via TCL?

I am developing a CPU in VHDL. I am using ModelSim for simulation and testing. In the simulation script I load a program from a binary file to the instruction memory. Now I want to automatically check if the program fits into memory and abort simulation if it doesn't. Since the memory is basically an array of std_logic_vectors, all I would have to do is read the corresponding signal attribute for use in a comparison. My problem is: How do I access a VHDL signal attribute in TCL inside ModelSim?
The closest I have gotten so far is to use the describe command:
describe sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array
which prints something like
# Array(0 to 255) [length 256] of
# Array(31 downto 0) [length 32] of
# VHDL standard subtype STD_LOGIC
Now, of course I could parse the length out of there via string operations. But that would not be a very generic solution. Ideally I would like to have something like this:
set mem_size [get_attribute sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array'length]
I have searched stackoverflow, googled up and down and searched through the commands in the command reference manual, but I could not find a solution. I am confident there must be a rather easy solution and I just lack the proper wording to successfully search for it. To me, this doesn't look overly specific and I am sure this could come in hand on many occasions when automating design testing. I am using version 10.6.
I would be very grateful if an experienced ModelSim user could help me out.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Tcl expert, so there's probably a more optimized solution out there.
There's a command called examine that you can use to get the value of obejcts.
I created a similar testbench here with a 256 x 32 array, the results were
VSIM> examine -radix hex sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array
# {32'hXXXXXXXX} {32'hXXXXXXXX} {32'hXXXXXXXX} {32'hXXXXXXXX} {32'hXXXXXXXX} ...
This is the value of sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array at the last simulation step (i.e.,
now).
The command return a list of values for each match (you can use wildcards), so
in our case, it's a list with a single item. You can get the depth by counting
the number of elements it returns:
VSIM> llength [lindex [examine sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array] 0]
# 256
You can get the bit width of the first element by using examine -showbase -radix hex,
which will return 32'hFFFFFFFF, where 32'h is the part you want to parse. Wrapping
that into a function would look like
proc get_bit_width { signal } {
set first_element [lindex [lindex [examine -radix hex -showbase $signal] 0] 0]
# Replace everything after 'h, including 'h itself to return only the base
return [regsub "'h.*" $first_element ""]
}
Hope this gives some pointers!
So, I actually found an easy solution. While further studying of the command reference manual brought to light that it is only possible to access a few special signal attributes and length is not one of them, I noticed that ModelSim automatically adds a size object to its object database for the memory array. So I can easily use
set ms [examine sim/:tb:uut:imem:mem_array_size]
to obtain the size and then check if the program fits.
This is just perfect for me, elegant and easy.

Is it possible to give text format hints in google vision api?

I'm trying to detect handwritten dates isolated in images.
In the cloud vision api, is there a way to give hints about type?
example: the only text present will be dd/mm/yy, d,m and y being digits
The only thing I found is language hints in the documentation.
Sometimes I get results that include letters like O instead of 0.
There is not a way to give hints about type but you can filter the output using client libraries. I downloaded detect.py and requirements.txt from here and modified detect.py (in def detect_text, after line 283):
response = client.text_detection(image=image)
texts = response.text_annotations
#Import regular expressions
import re
print('Date:')
dateStr=texts[0].description
# Test case for letters replacement
#dateStr="Z3 OZ/l7"
#print(dateStr)
dateStr=dateStr.replace("O","0")
dateStr=dateStr.replace("Z","2")
dateStr=dateStr.replace("l","1")
dateList=re.split(' |;|,|/|\n',dateStr)
dd=dateList[0]
mm=dateList[1]
yy=dateList[2]
date=dd+'/'+mm+'/'+yy
print(date)
#for text in texts:
#print('\n"{}"'.format(text.description))
#print('Hello you!')
#vertices = (['({},{})'.format(vertex.x, vertex.y)
# for vertex in text.bounding_poly.vertices])
#print('bounds: {}'.format(','.join(vertices)))
# [END migration_text_detection]
# [END def_detect_text]
Then I launched detect.py inside the virtual environment using this command line:
python detect_dates.py text qAkiq.png
And I got this:
23/02/17
There are few letters that can be mistaken for numbers, so using str.replace(“letter”,”number”) should solve the wrong identifications. I added the most common cases for this example.

Function to open a file and navigate to a specified line number

I have the output of recursive grep (actually ag) in a buffer, which is of the form filename:linenumber: ... [match] ..., and I want to be able to go to the occurrence (file and line number) currently under the cursor. This told me that I could execute normal-mode movements, so after extracting the file:line portion, I wrote this function:
function OpenFileNewTab(name)
let l:pair=split(a:name, ":")
execute "tabnew" get(l:pair, 0)
execute "normal!" get(l:pair, 1) . "G"
endfunction
It is supposed to open the specified file in a tab and then do <lineno>G, like I am able to do manually, to go to the specified line number. However, the cursor just stays on line 1. What am I doing wrong?
This question, by title alone, would be an exact duplicate, but it talks locating symbols in other files, while I already have the locations at hand.
Edit: My mappings for grep / ag are as follows:
nnoremap <Leader>ag :execute "new \| read !ag --literal -w" "<C-r><C-w>" g:repo \| :set filetype=c<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>gf ^v2t:"zy :execute OpenFileNewTab("<C-r>z")<CR>
To get my grep / ag results, I put the cursor on the word I want to search and enter <leader>ag, then, in the new buffer, I put the cursor on a line and enter <leader>gf - it selects from the start up to the second colon and calls OpenFileNewTab.
Edit 2: I'm on Cygwin, if it is of any importance - I doubt it.
Why don't you set &grepprg to call ag ?
" according to man ag
set grepprg=ag\ --vimgrep\ $*
set grepformat=%f:%l:%c:%m
" And then (not tested)
nnoremap <Leader>ag :grep -w <c-r><c-w><cr>
As others have said in the comments, you are just trying to emulate what the quickfix windows already provides. And, we are lucky vim can call grep, and it has a variation point to let us specify which grep program we wish to use: 'grepprg'.
Use file-line plugin. Pressing Enter on a line in the quicklist will normally open that file; file-line will make any filename of the form file:line:column (and several other formats) to open file and position to line and column.
I only found this (old) thread after I posted the exact same question on vi.stackexchange: https://vi.stackexchange.com/q/39557/44764. To help anyone who comes looking, I post the best answer to my question below as an alternative to the answers already given.
The gF command, like gf, opens the file in a new tab but additionally it also positions the cursor on the line after the colon. (I note the OP defines <leader>gf so maybe vim/neovim didn't auto-define gf or gF at the time this thread was originally created.)