On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:22:59 -0600
James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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.)
I'd like to request that those changes are done taking into account
the possibility of using some other plotters. I'm working on my own one
("there are others like it, but this one is mine"), which currently reads
the maxout.gnuplot files and plots them.
I could make a gnuplot emulator wrapper, but I'd like to be able
to use it directly. So things like allowing gnuplot-specific parameters
in the invokation of Maxima's plot functions would be an inconvenient for
me.
Hence my preference would be that the syntax of Maxima's plot
functions, including any allowed options, be designed to match Maxima's
style. Then, the function that talks to the different plotters would
translate those options if possible, and discard those of them not
supported by the selected plotter.
Cheers,
--
Alberto González Palomo
Toledo, España / Saarbrücken, Deutschland
alberto@matracas.org