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

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> 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!