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[etienne at isr.ist.utl.pt]

   Hi again,

if you take the path to speak directly to Gnuplot, maybe you will find  
useful the raw Octave-to-Gnuplot interface that I wrote. You can get  
it at:

   http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/code/code.html#OctaveGnuplot

   Hth,

   Etienne

Quoting Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de> (Sat, 31 Jan  
2009 08:46:04 +0100):

> Hi Marize,
> the best way to do this is the system command and make yourself  
> independent of
> the gnuplot interface of octave. Thereby you can use full gnuplot
> functionality without putting effort in an in-between layer interfacing
> between octave and gnuplot.
>
> ***************************************************************************
> A=zeros(1024,1);
> for i=1:1024
> A(i)=sin(2.0*pi*(i-1)/1024*10);
> endfor
>
> out=fopen("myfile", "w");
> for i=1:1024
> fprintf(out, "%10.3f %10.3f\n", (i-1)/1024, A(i));
> endfor
> fclose (out);
>
> script=fopen("myfile.plt", "w");
> fprintf(script, "set xrange[0:1]\n");
> fprintf(script, "set yrange[-1:1]\n");
> fprintf(script, "set terminal postscript enhanced color solid lw 2\n");
> fprintf(script, "set output \"myfile.ps\"\n");
> fprintf(script, "plot \"myfile\" w l\n");
> fprintf(script, "set output\n");
> fclose (script);
> system("gnuplot myfile.plt");
> ****************************************************************************
>
> and you end up with a graph in "myfile.ps" in postscript format. Expanding
> this example (see i. e. /usr/share/doc/packages/gnuplot/doc/ps_guide.ps if
> you are on linux) enables you to set nice fonts, you can use all commands of
> gnuplot easily and if you need to repeat such graphs you could define an
> octave-routine that does most things automatically.
>
> If you convert the above genreated function into a pdf-file you can smoothly
> integrate it into i. e. latex documents. Nevertheless you can use jpeg format
> as easy modifying the example above accordingly.
>
> Contact me if you need further support in this regard - best if you are using
> linux, that is where I have the most experience in this regard (and several
> tools making live easier).
>
> Hope this helps,
> take care
>
>
>
> Dieter Jurzitza
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> if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
> with constant spacing like courier! :-)
> -----------------------------------------------------------Am Samstag, 31.
> Januar 2009 03:18:23 schrieb Marize Simoes:
>> Hi
>>
>> How do I make gnuplot calls using octave?
> ****
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