Re: using gnuplot's "splot" and "every" commands on org-mode table data

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

If the removal of ""'s will *always* be preferable for gnuplot, then we
should be able make that conversion the default behavior.  However,
before such a conversion we'd need to ensure that the new format is more
generally useful than the existing export format.

Both `org-babel-gnuplot-quote-tsv-field' and `org-babel-gnuplot-table-to-data'
could fairly easily be customized to support different table formatting.

Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric,
>
> What you suggest is indeed a good solution, so thank you very much for that!
>
> I think it would still be nice, however, if someday the blank lines in
> the org table would be exported as blank lines in the temporary text
> file instead of as "" (which seems to be the root of the problem).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> While I can't claim to fully follow your gnuplot examples, i would
>> recommend using an intervening shell code block to parse the Org-mode
>> table data into something that gnuplot will ingest.
>>
>> If I understand your use case correctly, then something like the
>> following should work.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you really wanted to be fancy, gnuplot will let you specify shell
>> transformations as part of the plotting command which would allow you to
>> forego the intermediate code block.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Schulte
>> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
>>

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Eric Schulte
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