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From: gregd@mel1.geg.mot.com (Greg Davis)
Subject: Re: Data thinning with Gnuplot??
Organization: /mel6/u/gregd/.organization
Distribution: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:31:45

In article <GREGD.92Oct7121430@mel1.schbbs> gregd@mel1.schbbs (Greg Davis) writes:

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From: rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman)
Subject: Re: symmetric polar plots
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:17:44 GMT

In article <5638@naucse.cse.nau.edu> jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell) writes:

>As to a circular border--you might try cheating.  Turn off the border
>(I believe this is set noborder) and then plot a circle of the desired
>radius (plot 5).  You can also do a "set nokey" if you don't want this
>last plot to show up in the key.  You won't get exactly the border line
>type on some devices, but it may still be acceptable for your needs.

I find myself doing this sort of thing -- using a plot command to
produce something that is decoration rather than data -- often enough
that I think a small alteration to the way key titles are interpreted
would be useful.  Why not suppress printing key entries for plots
where the title is null?  I altered my copy of gnuplot 3.1 to behave
this way, only 5 or 6 lines need changing.

This way, instead of having to turn off the key and then duplicate almost
all of what it would do by hand, you could just say something like:

plot myborder(theta) title "", mydata(r,theta) title "mytitle"

--Radey Shouman
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From: drk@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Kerns)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: PD plotting package
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:29:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA

Can anyone recomend a decent PD plotting package.  I'd like to plot bar
charts and gnuplot just doesn't cut it.  After hearing people who ask for
impovements get criticized because any enhancement might compromize monkey
dos portability, I've given up on gnuplot.

Anything that outputs postscript or LaTeX and can do bar and line charts
would do the job.
--
				Dan Kerns	drk@cs.washington.edu
				Univ. of Washington, Computer Science
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From: rjl@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
Subject: MS-Windows version
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:49:50 GMT

The MS-Windows version of gnuplot is part of the version 3.3 alpha test.
Anyone using it must expect to find the occasional bug and help with
the fixing of those bugs.

When the beta test of version 3.3 is released I will try to make
an EXE available.

A number of people have commented about the pause dialog box.
Use Alt-Tab to cycle between the pause dialog box and the graph window.

The menu bar on the next version MS-Windows gnuplot will use 
COMMDLG.DLL to provide file list boxes.  This means that users
must have COMMDLG.DLL in their windows directory.  COMMDLG.DLL
is provided with Windows 3.1 and with Borland C++ 3.1.

Hidden lines do not work with MS-Windows on the current version 
alpha test due to memory constraints.
The next alpha test should work as well as the DOS version.


-- 
Russell Lang   Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au   Phone: (03) 565 3460
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hello.  I have recently received a copy of gnuplot3.2 and have tried
to install it on a sun running SunOS 4.1.  Everything goes well until
the libary "plot" is needed, and this I don't seem to have.  Is there
something else I need to get or am I missing something obvious.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Darren Weibler

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:08:59 -0800
From: me@cryptons.tamu.edu (My Account)
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hi, I am new to gnuplot and have been experimenting with the
plot with dots command. The problem I have is that the "dots"
are too tiny for publication purposes. Is there any way of making
the dots bigger or darker? (Plot with points is no good since I
am doing scatter plots).
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford)
Subject: More plot styles ...
Reply-To: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Organization: AARNet
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 04:39:51 GMT

I use gnuplot to generate network usage graphs in PostScript.

I use the impulse and line options mostly, but would like to
also have a "column" and "fill" option. The column option
would essentially be an impulse with a default and user
specificiable width. The fill option would be the same as
the line option, with the area under the line/curve filled
to the x-axis (by default). The fill would be solid by default,
but might also be user specifiable to be shaded and/or colour.

Any chance of such features appearing in a future release.
 
-- 
Peter Elford,                             e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Network Co-ordinator                      phone: +61 6 249 3542
Australian Academic Research Network      fax:   +61 6 249 1369
c/o, Computer Services Centre             pager: +61 6 245 3035
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Canberra, AUSTRALIA                             Canberra ACT 2601
From: bruce@egh-qc.uucp (Bruce Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: bar/line/pie graphs
Date: 15 Oct 92 10:59:58 GMT
Organization: Surgical Materials Testing Lab (SMTL)

jdc@sunset (John Campbell) writes:

[lots of stuff on the merits of a separate bar/pie gnuplot as opposed to
having it lumped into a general gnuplot]

We have on our system a gnuplot extension called fchart. Its a little old
now, from the intro:

FCHART
unix version 1.0 (2D only) patchlevel 0
last modified May 1990
Gnuplot v.1.x Copyright (C) 1986, 1987 Colin Kelley,Thomas Williams
Gnuplot v.2.0 John Campbell, David Kotz, Russell Lang
FCHART Copyright (C) 1990 Piotr Filip Sawicki


This does bar charts, pie charts, exploded pie to name but a few.

Does anyone know if this has been updated to run with a more recent gnuplot,
one that runs under X for example.

Bruce.

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From: root@erctitan.me.wisc.edu (Jim K. Yu)
Subject: compiling gnuplot
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:18:18 CDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
I am trying to compile gnuplot 3.2 on a STARDENT titan computer
I copied makefile.unx to Makefile and typed "make x11 TARGET=Install" and
the system exited with the following error:

"readline.c: 81: Can't find include file termios.h"

I looked though all partitions and it seems that our machine doesn't
have a termios.h.
Is it possible to compile without such file?
If not, could you please send me a termios.h for a generic X11 machine?

Thank you in advance for your attention.

Jim Yu
Engine Reseach Center
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Terminal Type and $DISPLAY
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:27:57 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Oct6.175056.3189@nlm.nih.gov>, neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve) writes:
| When I run gnuplot with $DISPLAY set in my environment,  the monitor
| comes up with my terminal set to type X11. I would expect that I would
| get the same result by starting up gnuplot with the -display option, but I don't.

Did you use setenv (rather than set) for csh or export for ksh?

| Am I doing something wrong? 

Probably, but that's my only idea.

| Is this a bug?

Unlikely, but not impossible.
-- 
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:59:51 CDT
From: CHARLES1@UA1VM.UA.EDU (Charles Harless)
Subject: Comment lines????
X-Acknowledge-To: <CHARLES1@UA1VM>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Hello all.

   I am currently working on a project to plot different data files.
   I have found GNUPLOT to be an excellent tool to do this.
   I am using GNUPLOT 3.2 for a PC running MS-DOS.

   Now my project director wants the following on the graph.
        1.  Labels on the X and Y axis
        2.  Filename and Date to appear on top line
        3.  Five lines of comments to appear below the graph but on the same
               page.

    I think I understand how to do the first two, but how do I do the last
         requirement.  Yes these are requirements.
       I do not know C so if you say change the source code, you will need to
       send me what to change and how to change it.  :)
       I would prefer not having to change any source code though.
    Also how can I remove the line that appears inside the graph stating what
       the graph is?
    And, is there a way to print two graphs on the same page?

Thank you for your help.

I need to know the above ASAP because I meet with my project director this
    Friday and I MUST present all possibilities.

Thanks.

Charles
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From: zohreh@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Ali Motamed)
Subject: Request for GNUPLOT source code
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:30:57 EDT
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From: schieber@jetson.uh.edu (Schieber, Jay D.)
Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator too low?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 18:53:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.184302.11580@access.usask.ca>, eric@skatter.usask.ca writes...
>I realize that one of gnuplot's claims to fame is its ability to produce
>output on an extremely wide range of output devices.  Unfortunately, this
>is causing problems for a number of users here.
> 
>Many of users here would like to put special characters (especially Greek)
>in their axis labels, plot titles, etc.  Physicists are *real* big on Greek...
> 
>Our `terminal type' is almost always some form of `postscript' so the extra
>characters could be produced if only there was some way to specify this
>to gnuplot.
> 
>Any thoughts on how to add support for non-ASCII characters in gnuplot?

This can be done, of course, when one uses the drivers emtex, latex,
eepic, etc.  These drivers support any of the TeX fonts, including
all of the math fonts.  However, this does not sound like your
solution if you only want to use the postscript driver.



> 
>--
>Eric Norum                     eric@skatter.usask.ca
>Research Engineer              phone: (306) 966-6308
>Accelerator Laboratory
>University of Saskatchewan
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: lwilson@mcc.com (Linda Wilson)
Subject: LaTeX driver question
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:25:13 GMT

As a new user of gnuplot, I'm glad I found this newsgroup.

Has anyone hacked the LaTeX driver to allow dashed lines in
addition to solid and dotted lines?

Linda Wilson
lwilson@mcc.com

P.S. Does anyone know of a newsgroup for idraw questions?
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: ajs@msdrl.com (Anthony Starks)
Subject: Call for pictures for fig->MF tool
Organization: Hacks at Home
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:00:39 GMT

This is a call for all of you artistic types (or wannabes)
to show your stuff.

I'm polishing a tool to convert Fig code to METAFONT and I'm bored with my
current picture collectionn, so I'm soliciting interesting examples of Fig
code
for testing/amusement. There are no guidelines on the content or complexity
of the pictures. Any thing from small symbols to full-page illustrations are
fine. I want your pictures!

Mail your submissions to "ajs@msdrl.com", and please include a descriptive
subject line. For your trouble, I'll send you the METAFONT code for your
picture.

Perhaps I'll post a summary of best/worse/most interesting!


Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: rjl@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
Subject: Re: Quasi-bar graph technique (long)
Keywords: histogram, ogive, bar graph, TurboPascal
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:36:09 GMT

gnuplot 3.3 *alpha* has a limited bargraph facility.
The following is extracted from 'help set style'

 The `boxes` style is only relevant to 2-d plotting.  It draws 
 a box centred about the given x coordinate from the yaxis to the given
 y coordinate.   The width of the box is obtained in one of three
 ways.  If a data file has a fifth column, this will be used to set
 the width of the box.  Otherwise, if a width has been set using the
 `set boxwidth` command, this will be used.  Otherwise the width of each
 box will be calculated automatically so that it touches the adjacent 
 boxes.  Another style called `boxerrorbars` is also available and is 
 only  relevant to 2-d data file plotting.  This style is a combination 
 of the `boxes` and `errorbars` styles.

James Fortunes program could be simplified slightly by allowing
gnuplot to draw the boxes.
Filling boxes is much harder because the gnuplot terminal drivers
do not have a fill function.
Filling with multiple parallel lines will work with some terminal
types, and with others will produce far too much output.

-- 
Russell Lang   Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au   Phone: (03) 565 3460
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: moss_r@summer.chem.su.oz.au (Richard Moss)
Subject: Wanted features
Followup-To: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Organization: Sydney University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 07:20:49 GMT

Hi,

it seems since the start of this group, a lot of the articles have been on
extensions to gnuplot that people would like to see, so I just thought  I'd
chip in what I'd like to see.

The two things I'd like ( like as in think they would make gnuplot a *lot*
more useful, for me at least ) are:

      1) multiple plots  - which seems to have been hacked by some
                           people already ( Steve Cumming if your out 
                           there, I'd love your code to do this ),

and   2) greek ( at least ) symbols - this I think is a *must* if you
                           do any sought of scientific work.  Some sought
                           of implementation of the symbol postscript/X
                           font would be really helpfull.

Due to the above 2 things missing at the moment, I only use gnuplot for
simple 'graphs' of results, and not really any presentation quality type
stuff ( though I do use it a *lot*, and am not bitching in any way, just
saying what I think would make it a lot better ).  If I could get it
compiled and working, I would probably be a lot happier to use gle, as it
seems to do the above two things pretty well, ( though I must admit I never
have been able to get it to compile and work properly ),

just some ideas,

Richard


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From: mem@kepler.unh.edu (Mary E Martin)
Subject: Gnuplot novice questions
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:26:27 GMT

Keywords: 

This newsgroup comes just in time!
I have two problem that i have been unable to solve with the
Gnuplot documentation.

1) when i want multiple lines for ylabel i still get one long
   line.  I have used  double backslashes in my string - is there
   something else i need to be doing?

2) Is it possible to plot data with both a line and a SUBSET of points (say
   every tenth point or so).  

Thanks for any advice you might have on these questions?
Mary Martin
Complex Systems Research Center
Univ of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
mem@woody.unh.edu
From: shtmar04@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
Subject: GnuPlot for Windows in RSA?
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:59:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Oct7.165954.203004
Organization: University of Cape Town

In article <shenoy.718320678@pv0260.vincent.iastate.edu>, shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy) writes:
> In <yrdpd#p@lynx.unm.edu> jdaves@triton.unm.edu (Jonathan Daves-Brody) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Oct5.161044.18826@dazixco.ingr.com> naftaly@dazixco.ingr.com writes:
>>>
>>>In article <5815@tuegate.tue.nl>, ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts) writes:
>>>>cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein) writes:
>>>>
>>>>>>Does anyone know of an implementation of gnuplot that will run under MS
>>>>>>Windows.  I already have the DOS version, but I'd like to have a version
>>>>>>for Windows that operates much as the X-11 version does.
>>>>
>>>>>There is one on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I got in the uploads directory a
>>>>>while back so it has likely moved but it is there.  It works just like the
>>>>>X11 version!
>>>>
>>>>I couldn't find it. Is there somebody out there who has a more precise pointer
>>>>to this MS-Windows version of GnuPlot.
>>>>
>>>>By the way: I'd also appreciate a pointer to a recent DOS version (compiled
>>>>binary) of GNUplot. 
>>>>
>>I tried to get that version, but was unable to decompress the executable part
>>of it - pkzip claimed errors.  It did unzip the textfile parts of the zipped
>>file, just not the executables.  Has anybody else had this problem?  Is it
>>a problem with the file on Cica?  Is it a problem with my version of pkzip?
>>I tried downloading it several times, all with identical results.
> 
>>I've been waiting for this newsgroup to ask that very question!
> 
> It is still in the pub/pc/win3/uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
> I just retrieved it and checked to see if I could extract the files. I did
> not have any problem doing that. Try again.
> 
> -- 
> Shiva Shenoy                           | e-mail: shenoy@iastate.edu 
> 2066 Black,                            | Office: (515)-294-0082
> Dept. of Aero. Engg. & Engg. Mechanics | Home  : (515)-296-7640
> Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010  |

Alo,  Alo

I apologise if this is an apalling question for the net,  but I'm new to the
business...

I live in South Africa and my only access to downloads is through the
university network system.  As it is,  not much is mirrored here so we spend
muchof our time drooling at the titbits you mention in convo.

GnuPlot is one item I've heard much about,  and a Windows version sounds
superb.  Could someone please fill me in as to what it will do,  and how I can
fetch it from the other side of the world?

Thanks in advance,
Mark Shuttleworth
University of Cape Town [Under the Mountain...]

 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator too low?
Originator: lewart@rsm1.physics.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
Organization: UIUC Physics Department
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:37:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.184302.11580@access.usask.ca> eric@skatter.usask.ca writes:

> I realize that one of gnuplot's claims to fame is its ability to produce
> output on an extremely wide range of output devices.  Unfortunately, this
> is causing problems for a number of users here.

This does not cause your problems.

> Many of users here would like to put special characters (especially Greek)
> in their axis labels, plot titles, etc.  Physicists are *real* big on Greek...

> Our `terminal type' is almost always some form of `postscript' so the extra
> characters could be produced if only there was some way to specify this
> to gnuplot.

Use "set term latex".  Physicists are also "*real* big" on LaTeX.

> Any thoughts on how to add support for non-ASCII characters in gnuplot?

Then you can use all the TeX characters or fonts you could want.

Check out "LaTeX and the GNUPLOT Plotting Program" by David Kotz.
The LaTeX version is available in docs/latextut of the source code
and the PostScript version is available by anonymous `ftp' to
dartmouth.edu in ~/pub/gnuplot/tutorial.ps.Z .

Daniel Lewart
d-lewart@uiuc.edu
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From: zohreh@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Ali Motamed)
Subject: Request for GNUPLOT source code.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:16:37 EDT
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Posted-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 23:48:39 PDT
Subject: Re: Lowest common denominator too low?
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