Subject: How does gnuplot expect the data formatted
From: Richard Hennessy
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:45 -0400
Yes, thank you. This is very helpful.
Rich
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From: Dan Hatton <vi5u0-maxima at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr-15-2008 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] How does gnuplot expect the data formatted
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
<http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>;
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