octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-May-2008, Dieter Jurzitza wrote:

| I do not want to raise a discussion on whether the "raw" gnuplot commands 
| should be kept alive. A decision has been made, I live with it. 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.

This assumes that gnuplot is even used for generating plots.  It's
likely that at some time in the reasonably near future this will no
longer be true for Octave, or at least that the default (and probably
more complete and actively maintained) plotting backend will not be
based on gnuplot.

| And again, thanks to everybody - this tells me that more people than me are 
| struggling to get smooth graphs for their publications / presentations / 
| daily work.

If you prefer using gnuplot commands, then I suggest splitting
computation from plotting, and writing out your data to files, then
using gnuplot separately to generate the plots.

jwe