>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Ulrich Kruppa <kruppa@pukruppa.net> writes:
Peter> I am going to introduce Maxima to my students. They will have enough to do
Peter> learning calculus and getting used to Maxima's command-line statements.
Peter> Fussing around with gnuplot,too, will be overkill.
But now they have to futz around with a postscript viewer....
And other than installing gnuplot, I don't have to futz around with
gnuplot to have maxima use it to plot things.
Peter> And: gnuplot only produces box-plots, no y- vs x-axis diagrams, to which
Peter> they are used. For an experienced mathematician this is no problem, for a
Peter> beginner it's just another useless difficulty.
What is a box plot? How is that different from y- vs x-axis diagrams?
Whenever I plot anything with maxima and gnuplot, I get nice x vs y
graphs that I would expect. Something like (very crude ASCII graphics
here)
y-label
2 + ...............
| .
| .
1 + .
|
|
0 +-----+-----+-----+-----+--
0 1 2 3 4
Anyway, you can use plot2d_ps for now if you really want postscript
output.
And actually, if you're just plotting functions, using gnuplot is an
excellent way to do that as well for functions gnuplot knows about.