From: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Greek symbol rendering problem in gnuplot
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:58:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFAhFSXc1OCFJPpEuos8OfbCX8sZSkvd+zwP-4Sdd5SPBo4k2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zho8owhh.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
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The 2014 "gnuplot-mode" has the problem of not rendering the greek symbols
when asked to by babel, hence, my switch to "gnuplot-mode" 2017.
C-h v gnuplot-program reports
gnuplot-program’s value is "/usr/bin/gnuplot"
This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
Documentation:
Not documented as a variable.
. . . which is correct, and, yes, as a stand-alone mode it works, i.e., it
finds the gnuplot executable and renders the greek letters fine. However,
when I attempt it inside a babel gnuplot code block it gives the error of
not finding the executable. This is behavior I've seen when babel doesn't
see a necessary mode that it requires to work with. This is my
supposition/guess. As I recall, when I first tried a babel gnuplot block,
it made this same complaint. Then I realized I hadn't installed the gnuplot
mode. The problem went away when I installed gnuplot-mode 2014. So again,
my educated guess is that babel doesn't see or want to interact with
gnuplot-mode 2017, rather, it want to see gnuplot-mode 2014.
I feel like I'm beating this to death. I can simply hand-edit in the
diagrams with greek letters done correctly into my org file, i.e., just not
do babel gnuplot. Again, gnuplot-mode 2014 in stand-alone will do a "plot
file" of the code correctly, but not a "plot buffer" strangely enough. (I'm
guessing babel gnuplot wants to do a "plot buffer".) OTOH, this is a bug,
i.e., no sane work-around, and we, an advanced species, shouldn't negotiate
with or accommodate insects.
So what is the process of keeping babel up-to-date AFA modes interacting
with their executables is concerned? Who does this? I can look at the
gnuplot-modes and see if I can find anything. But I'm a total noob with
big-time Elisp code.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 1:09 AM Fraga, Eric <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for the long explanation. I am using the 2014 version of
> gnuplot-mode and gnuplot 5.2.
>
> gnuplot-mode has a customizable variable, gnuplot-program, which
> specifies which command to execute to start gnuplot. The default value
> for this variable, at least in the 2014 version, is simply "gnuplot" so
> it will pick up the default gnuplot on Linux (if there is more than one
> version installed, I imagine that /etc/alternatives will be used to
> identify the default).
>
> If you think the wrong gnuplot is being picked up, maybe customize this
> variable? What do you get if you simply invoke "M-x run-gnuplot"?
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.2.3-327-g3375f0
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-29 2:48 Greek symbol rendering problem in gnuplot Lawrence Bottorff
2019-04-29 5:33 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-04-29 14:13 ` Lawrence Bottorff
2019-04-30 6:09 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-04-30 15:58 ` Lawrence Bottorff [this message]
2019-04-30 17:10 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-05-01 3:41 ` Lawrence Bottorff
2019-05-01 8:06 ` Fraga, Eric
2019-04-30 16:01 ` Lawrence Bottorff
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