From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Plotting in Emacs? Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 06:36:45 +0200 Message-ID: <878rdez6oy.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87a5z56d0j.fsf@mbork.pl> <87bkibyniq.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31745"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 30.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Daniel Fleischer Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 06:37:18 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q1gFS-00082c-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 May 2023 06:37:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q1gF6-0006bW-3f; Wed, 24 May 2023 00:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q1gF3-0006V6-2p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2023 00:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q1gF1-00027y-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2023 00:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8CF9C27EF; Wed, 24 May 2023 06:36:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QNaKMKVaTqYz; Wed, 24 May 2023 06:36:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147092.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.92]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BAC981A008BD; Wed, 24 May 2023 06:36:45 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143726 Archived-At: On 2023-05-23, at 20:07, Daniel Fleischer wrote: > Marcin Borkowski [2023-05-23 Tue 19:18] wrote: > >> Well, as I said in my message, I explicitly want to avoid external >> dependencies (like gnuplot). And for a solution using gnuplot, showing >> the plot in the Emacs buffer is a must. >> >> That said, chart.el (recommended elsewhere in this thread) is definitely >> one interesting possibility. > > This library looks experimental, with only ascii bar plot support. If > you want anything nicer you got to use an external package; even Emacs > built-in Calculator uses gnuplot to draw functions and data. Well, I was under the impression that ASCII bar plots are the main purpose of that package... > As for showing the plot, the babel code block I showed generates the > following result section > > #+RESULTS: > [[file:a.png]] > > Then you only need to make sure org mode shows images by calling > `org-toggle-inline-images' and it's part of the buffer, if that wasn't > clear. Ah, thanks, I missed that. Still, I think I will (eventually) write my own. Gnuplot plots are anything but good-looking (unless properly configured which I do not how to do) - for good-looking plots I'd go to pgfplot, and for my use-case I'd really prefer an ASCII art one. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl