Subject: How does gnuplot expect the data formatted
From: Dan Hatton
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:02:37 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Richard Hennessy wrote:
> I would still like to do plots that Maxima can't do by exporting the
> data to a text file using stringout and makelist. So far I have
> written my own plotter, but it is too specific to this plot. If I
> could use gnuplot to do it it might be better.
Does using Maxima's plot2d function with the option
[gnuplot_term,table], e.g.
plot2d(function(x),[x,lowerlimit,upperlimit],[gnuplot_term,table],[gnuplot_out_file,"text_file.dat"] ;
give something like what you want?
In answer to your next message, Gnuplot has a newsgroup:
comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
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HTH,
Dan Hatton
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