octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[David Bateman]

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.

> 2.) is there a way to force octave to write it's gnuplot config file into a 
> gnuplot compiliant config file in order to simplify further gnuplot 
> processing of the data (and to not be forced to do everything manually)

I use

drawnow ("x11", "/dev/null", false, "file.gp")

that creates a file called file.gp with the raw gnuplot commands that
can be used directly with gnuplot's load command

D.