Re: octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> > Dear listmembers,
> > I am using gnuplot output very regularly within documents I produce with 
> > latex. In order to achieve a really good quality I found it very convenient 
> > to produce postscript output and convert this to pdf afterwards.
> > Moreover, the attributes of the text, additional labels / arrows / 
> > whatsoever 
> > can be integrated in the graph.
> > 
> > Now, through the recent modifications in octave, the direct access to 
> > gnuplot 
> > through octave became more difficult - don't take me wrong I do not mind.
> > In order to further process the graphs I use additional code to output data 
> > into files, prepare gnuplot configuration files and call gnuplot finally 
> > with 
> > a system command out of octave. This is managable but circumstancial.
> > 
> > My question is now twofold:
> > 1.) is it possible to force octave to write all data into files rather than 
> > piping them into gnuplot (or does this happen anyway?)?
> 
> Not really.
> 

Well, 'octave' has 'gnuplot_binary' command.

Using it one can use gnuplot impersonator which intercepts octave's STDOUT with 
'gnuplot'
commands - I used to have a Perl script doing this and writing its STDIN to 
file, parsing it on
the fly.

Regards,
  Sergei.


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