On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:44 +0300, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> I've been thinking about plot options especially on Windows.
> I second you one with one extra suggestion. Let's make
> ps behave just like any other 'output to file' format -
> without -persist and no any ghostview.
I agree. Maxima's plot commands should just create a PostScript
file. The problem of what to do with it should be left to the user.
I also think that [plot_format,ps] should be deprecated. Both
Gnuplot and Openmath have their own way to create PostScript
output which is much better that the result from the lisp
function in src/plot.lisp
There should be something such as:
plot2d(f(x), x=0:2*%pi, out_format=PS, out_file="~/mydir/myplot.ps")$
that should work for any plot_format (gnuplot, openmath or other future
ones)
I've started to work on improving Openmath. Please see the progress and
comment on the plans in the Wiki:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/New%20Version%20of%
20Openmath
Jaime