From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3655 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes H?sing Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Tables and graphs Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 07:52:41 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20001223075241.A861@ruhrau.de> References: <20001222182608.E1291@wouter.verheijen.nl> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394379 18985 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: conTeXt In-Reply-To: <20001222182608.E1291@wouter.verheijen.nl>; from wouter.verheijen@worldmail.nl on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:26:09PM +0100 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3655 On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:26:09PM +0100, Wouter Verheijen wrote: > Hi, Ahoj, > I plan to do a essay about physics with Context. The essay will > contain a couple of tables. Most of them will be accompanied by a > graph, displaying the same data, compared with a theoretical curve. > > - Which program is best suited for this? My first thought is gnuplot. > But that will generate (e.g.) .ps-output, thus I cannot edit the > graph later. Is there a solution? > The output of gnuplot depends on the argument to 'set terminal'. Type "help set terminal" at the gnuplot prompt. You can use 'mp' as the terminal but Metapost at its generic format is limited -- it won't handle thousands of points in a scatterplot without being enlarged by a wizard. > - Is it possible to share the measured data between the table and the > graph? Maybe Context can read the table as plaintext and insert the > \VL, \FR, \MR etc. automatically? > I'd say you'll have to write a Perl script or whichever scripting language suits you best and handle the stuff with makefiles if it becomes hairy. Groetjes Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing /"\ ASCII-Ribbon Campaign \ / against HTML X in e-mail and news / \