On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Oh well, you are free to ignore the simple solution I gave you.
>
Jaime,
its a good solution, dont get me wrong, but im trying to build a multiuser
setup that keeps thing as "maxima-ish" as possible, (no functions that i'v
made up) and reduce user "astonishment" on the effect of common commands.
regards
Jiun
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
>
> On 20-07-2013 14:21, jiun bookworm wrote:
>
> seems like there may not be a way to pass a function thats to be
> evaluated as the
> parameter to gnuplot, for now i settled with having a little program
> watch my work directory and rename each image as soon as it created. Not
> efficient but until i figure out some way of adding hooks to maxima's
> gnupot interface, this will suffice.
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> plot_file():=
>> ['gnuplot_out_file,concat("./tmp/",string(gensym("plot")),".png")]$
>>
>>
>> mypngplot2d([aargs]):=apply(plot2d,append(args,[[gnuplot_term,png],plot_file()]))$
>>
>>
>> mypngplot2d(x^3,[x,-2,2]);
>>
>> and the plot of x^3 was saved into the file ./tmp/plot972.png. You can
>> still type plot2d(x^3,[x,-2,2]) to see the same plot on your screen.
>>
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