From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] gnuplot quality
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:16:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wru4uhux.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87631o8ebj.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:23:44 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:35:52 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> WRT: the ugliness of gnuplot to file, I've wrestled with this myself and
> >> I know exactly what you mean. Currently I try to use svg or png images
> >> when exporting to html, and for pdf I use the gnuplot tikz terminal [2].
> >
> > John & Eric,
> >
> > Another approach, which I use and which doesn't require using the
> > development version of gnuplot for the tikz support, is to generate
> > encapsulated postscript files:
> >
> > set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20
> > set output "graph.eps"
> >
>
> Thanks!
>
> I just tried the above (well technically the below [1]) and it does look
> great and scales well. It's nice to have a light-weight alternative to
> tikz -- a great addition to my plotting toolbox.
>
> Best -- Eric
[...]
> Footnotes:
> [1]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_src gnuplot
> set terminal postscript eps enhanced 20 color
> set output "~/Desktop/graph.eps"
> set isosample 30,30
> set title 'bumpy'
> set xrange[-4:4]
> set yrange[-4:4]
> splot sin(x) + sin(y) notitle
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
You're very welcome. I use a number of methods to generate graphs and
diagrams and gnuplot is definitely one of my favourites. For the
adventurous, there's a great blog:
http://gnuplot-tricks.blogspot.com/
Put gnuplot together with org-mode and org-babel and it's yet another
piece in the puzzle that leads to an incredibly powerful desktop
analysis and publishing system!
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 20:12 org-plot file export options John Hendy
2010-06-11 20:35 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-12 10:17 ` [OT] gnuplot quality (was Re: org-plot file export options) Eric S Fraga
2010-06-12 10:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-06-18 20:43 ` John Hendy
2010-06-18 21:00 ` [OT] gnuplot quality Eric Schulte
2010-06-18 21:13 ` [OT] gnuplot quality (was Re: org-plot file export options) Nick Dokos
2010-06-18 22:04 ` John Hendy
2010-06-12 15:18 ` John Hendy
2010-06-12 15:23 ` [OT] gnuplot quality Eric Schulte
2010-06-12 20:16 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2010-06-13 2:35 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-06-13 10:03 ` [OT] what about asymptote ? Nicolas Goaziou
2010-06-13 16:31 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-13 17:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-06-15 13:35 ` [babel] Re: Re: [OT] gnuplot quality Eric S Fraga
2010-06-15 15:30 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-16 10:27 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-06-17 3:07 ` Alan E. Davis
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