James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:28, Jay Belanger wrote:
>
>> Is there any interest in having gnuplot specific drawing commands?
>
> Yes. In fact, I was going to propose that we
> 1) make gnuplot the default plotting application
> 2) make it possible to send gnuplot-specfic information to
> gnuplot
> 3) ditch mgnuplot in favor of talking to gnuplot directly.
>
> I was only going to propose 3 after demonstrating a proof-of-concept
> implementation. (I currently only have a proof-of-proof-of-concept
> implementation.)
The nice thing about mgnuplot is that the user can interact with it
after the graph is plotted.
It'd be much nicer if such things could be done directly from maxima,
but common lisp doesn't seem to have any subprocess abilities. (Is that
right?)
Without subprocesses, the maxout.gnuplot file could be kept, and after
a Maxima plotting command, it could be modified and gnuplot restarted,
but that seems unpleasant at best.
(What constitutes a proof-of-proof-of-concept, by the way?)
Jay