From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22863 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: function plotting Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:05:28 +0200 Message-ID: <43437B38.6030006@wxs.nl> 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> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128495974 2029 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2005 07:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 05 09:06:08 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 1EN3Ks-0006WA-52 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC19B127E0; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:05:05 +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 05449-10; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:05:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60041127E5; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:05:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38702127E5 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:05:00 +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 05432-03 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4985A127E0 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9574ugx020638; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 15AC736502; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:07:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127CD193E9; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:07:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Mojca Miklavec , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00510041048l25e0b9f0m@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:22863 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------