No plots in aquaterm



On 01/14/2013 02:16 PM, Herbert wrote:
> I am user of wxMaxima since a lot of years, in a Linux (Ubuntu) 
> system. In that system, I have no problems with plotting or drawing 
> functions.
> Now, I use an iMac, too, with system 10.8.2, where I have wxMaxima 
> 12.08.0 and Maxima 5.28.0 installed.
> When I try to use the plot or draw command, no drawings appear, 
> wxMaxima simply 'hangs', no errors are reported on the screen.
> Plotting functions only with Gnuplot (version 4.6.1 is installed) 
> works well in both, x11 and AquaTerm.
> Have you any idea how to 'convince' the system to plot or draw 
> directly from wxMaxima?
> With my best regards,
> H. Ballmann
Hi,
please try this command:

plot2d(x^2,[x,0,2],[plot_format,gnuplot]);

even if wxMaxima hangs, there is a chance that the file maxout.gnuplot 
is created; please try to find that file and tell us the first few lines 
which should be something like this:

set term pop
set xlabel "x"
set ylabel "x^2"
set xrange [0.     : 2.    ]
set zeroaxis
set datafile missing "NaN"
plot [0.    :2.    ] '-' notitle with lines lt 3

You can also enter gnuplot and then issue the command:

load "path_to_file_maxout.gnuplot_in_you_system"

which should produce the plot.

Regards,
Jaime