From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22869 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Munger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: function plotting Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:08:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1128514133.1068.33.camel@tempete> References: <20051002172755.GA17649@none.at> <43401ECE.2030309@creutzig.de> <20051002185852.GB19384@none.at> <434044D5.8090109@creutzig.de> <20051003080358.GA3782@none.at> <434169BB.4000008@creutzig.de> <20051004082954.GA20838@none.at> <6faad9f00510041048l25e0b9f0m@mail.gmail.com> <43437B38.6030006@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128514228 23714 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2005 12:10:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 05 14:10:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EN84y-0001RN-NA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:09:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D49127F1; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:09:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07629-05; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB601277B; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20661277B for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07891-02 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F1012772 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from HSE-Ottawa-ppp160286.sympatico.ca ([64.229.141.163]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051005120850.GHLO26102.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@HSE-Ottawa-ppp160286.sympatico.ca> for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:08:50 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43437B38.6030006@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22869 Archived-At: > gnuplot is great indeed, but the output is rather large; it would be nice if there was a real good output mode (say, comparable to the output produced by metapost: compact, parsable); > > btw, is it really that difficult to use gnuplot output in context? > > Hans I often use metapost output from gnuplot indeed, then pass it through a short sed script to do stuff like adding \start/stopuseMPgraphic commands and cleaning the preamble. I think gnuplot does a great job in general. For more complex graphs, I prefer the mp-graph package. Regards, David