Re: function plotting

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>I use gnuplot which makes graphs of superb visual quality and has
>extensive support for many different function manipulations and weird
>stuff that you want to do with it. I do something like:
>
>set terminal latex
>set output "file.tex"
>set title '\bf My wonderful function $sin(\omega t)$'
>set xlabel '$t\ \rm[s]$'
>set ylabel '$A$'
>plot sin(x)
>
>and then "\input file" inside of the main LaTeX file. Gnuplot cannot
>make output in ConTeXt (yet), but perhaps you can include the
>resulting PDFs in your ConTeXt source. (Gnuplot is one of the very few
>examples where I still use LaTeX.) You can also output the
>(ConTeXt-friendly) metapost (with set terminal), but you lose on
>quality.
>  
>
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 

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