Re: octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- Dieter Jurzitza <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear listmembers,
> first of all, many thanks for all the inputs I received. And, David, many 
> thanks for the suggested function. Personally, I vote strongly against 
> removing this function from octave, too. It would throw everyone back 
> singnificantly who is working closely with gnuplot. As long as there is no 
> straightforward way to create "publication-quality" graphs out of octave and 
> as long as I am forced to fiddle around with gnuplot parameters and commands 
> I (probably) have a different approach from others.
> 
> And, to stop any discussion from rising, I do not think there is a way to 
> emit 
> a command like (maybe I just didn't find ...)
> 
> set terminal postscript enhanced color solid "Arial,14"
> 
> or a command like
> 

> The only tiny 
> (well, maybe not _that_ tiny ...) little wish I would appreciate to rise 
> would be a function called gnuplotout (or whatever name is apropriate) that 
> outputs both the configuration file and the data to be plotted so the further 
> work is not that effortsome. Just my 2 cents here.

What about

gnuplot_binary("| tee gnuplot_input.txt | gnuplot");

- "gnuplot_input.txt" above is what is sent to 'gnuplot'.

Regards,
  Sergei.



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