From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29589 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:00:52 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200607221000.52564.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <44C1071F.80300@trichotomic.net> <6faad9f00607211036v155d27bch8003d49d667d3075@mail.gmail.com> <44C12964.9080303@trichotomic.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153577175 6682 80.91.229.2 (22 Jul 2006 14:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jul 22 16:06:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1G4I7L-0000ES-Dq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:06:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B83E127BC; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:06:06 +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 10828-08; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:05:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19D9127B7; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:02:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4995D127B7 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:02:19 +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 10828-06 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:02:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 28A11127AA for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:02:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 69-174-128-193.frdrmd.adelphia.net ([69.174.128.193]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060722140153.XBCK4642.mta11.adelphia.net@69-174-128-193.frdrmd.adelphia.net>; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:01:53 -0400 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <44C12964.9080303@trichotomic.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29589 Archived-At: On Friday 21 July 2006 15:22, David Wooten wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Thus I'm curious as to what others use... is R an efficient method to > >> produce elegant charts? Is straight MetaPost preferable? > > > > With metapost you can surely achive most beautiful results and it is > > not as difficult to learn as TeX-programming. Of course you might need > > more time to draw what you need or to write your own set of macros, > > but if you have high demands about quality this might be the way to > > go. > > > > However, if you prefer doing it quicly using the existing tools (be > > aware that you have to learn how to use those tools as well), R or > > gnuplot might be an interesting choice. You'll be limited by the power > > of those two tools, but in most cases they should suffice for the > > normal usage. > > > > The gnuplot module is still in development (I've been just begging > > Hans for help a few hours ago ;). Take a look at the demo section of > > gnuplot (http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.1/) to see if it can > > offer you what you want to do. In that case ask on the list again, > > I'll give you further pointers how to use it with ConTeXt > > (http://pub.mojca.org/gnuplot). > > > > But basically you can take any program to draw graphs and include the > > resulting PDFs. I'm afraid that the macros from the paper which you > > pointed to, use some PostScript code that cannot be handled as-is (you > > need some conversion to PDF first) and I'm affraid that the effort put > > into making it work woudn't pay off now that you have a great varienty > > of other plotting programs, including metapost itself (esp. if the > > package has never been released - you'll probably hardly get any > > support for it). > > > > Mojca > > Thanks very much for your reply. Your advice seems strong, and in truth > I have been intrigued by MetaPost for many years. This certainly seems a > valid excuse to delve into it ;) > > David > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context I have always found Pstricks to be very useful. There is a module m-pstric.tex that you can look at. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com