Re: Nice plots for TeX in windows environments?

[Steve Thompson]

Hi Rolf,

Using gnuplot scripts with the pslatex driver works wonders.
You'll have to interface with Gnuplot directly though and write
up the gnuplot scripts by hand, though.  Here's an example
script I just cut out of my work...

  ##

  set term pslatex color solid rotate 8

  set format "$%g$"
  set ticscale 0.5
  set border 31 linewidth 0.5
  set size 0.8, 1.2

  set logscale y 10
  set format y "$10^{%T}$"

  set grid
  set ylabel 'Bit error rate'
  set xlabel '[t]{Bit energy-to-noise density ratio, \
    $\mathcal E _ \text b / N _ 0$ (dB)}'

  set output "plot01.tex"

  set key spacing 1.1 width 26 box lw 0.1
  set xtic 3

  plot [6 : 25] [1e-4 : 1e-0] \
  "some_file.txt" \
    t 'Blah1' w l lt 7 lw 1, \
  "some_other_file.txt" \
    ev 3 t 'Blah2' w lp lt 3 lw 1 pt 9 ps 1, \


Calling it in LaTeX like...

  \begin {figure} [btph]
  \centering
  \input {plot01}
  \caption {Blah.}
  \label {fig: plot01}
  \end {figure}

produces a paper-quality result.

Steve