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From: Paul Stansell <paulstansell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: using gnuplot's "splot" and "every" commands on org-mode table
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:14:34 +0100
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To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
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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
>