octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[David Bateman]

Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> --- David Bateman <adb014 at gmail.com> 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.
>
>   
Ok then not if you mix it with Octave's front-end plotting commands..

D.




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