Re: org-plot (generating graphs from org-mode)

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

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.  A new version of org-plot is
up on the git repo http://github.com/eschulte/org-plot/tree/master

detailed comments below...

"William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com> writes:
> *** [2008-08-28 Thu] Finding the table to plot
>     =org-plot/goto-nearest-table= searches backward first, which means
>     that if point is located in an options line for a following table,
>     then it will find the previous table instead. This is usually
>     undesired.

I changed this so it no longer looks backwards

> *** [2008-08-28 Thu] Columns with multi-word text
>     Consider the following table:
>
> #+PLOT: title:"Citas" ind:0 deps:(3) type:2d with:histograms set:"yrange [0:]"
>     | Sede      | Max cites | H-index |
>     |-----------+-----------+---------|
>     | Chile     |    257.72 |   21.39 |
>     | Leeds     |    165.77 |   19.68 |
>     | São Paolo |     71.00 |   11.50 |
>     | Stockholm |    134.19 |   14.33 |
>     | Morelia   |    257.56 |   17.67 |
>
>     In theory, this should plot the third column. However, the data
>     point for São Paolo comes from the second column
>     instead. Presumably this is because of the embedded space in "Sõo
>     Paolo". If I replace it with a unicode non-breaking space,
>     "São Paolo", then it works correctly.

you're right, I am now quoting non-text columns on export which takes
care of the problem you mentioned here.  Also, org-plot is now using to
gnuplot `xticlabel' command to use the `ind' column's values as labels
in the case that they are text.  (to demonstrate, plot your table from
above with the ind:1 option).  If you don't mind, I would like to add
the table you sent above to the example.org file in org-plot to
demonstrate this feature.

Thanks -- Eric