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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Plotting in Guile
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <126176.72239.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d3u77dfv.fsf@chondestes.bio.unc.edu>

> > For my own personal use, I have a Guile binding of GNU Plotutils.  I had
> > planned that someday I'd clean it up and making it available.  It has most
> > of the functionality of the GNU Plotutils 'graph' program.  
> 
> My questions:
> 1.  What is the status of Plotutils?  I looked into it a while ago and
>     it seemed really out of date and seemed to have a very small user
>     community

I think it is more dead than alive, I think.  There are bug-fix releases, 
including one in late 2009, but, the official gnu website hasn't been updated 
in a decade or so.  There is no git repo, so it is hard to know if any work
is being done on it.

Even so, it does a great job at your standard 2D graphs.

> 2. Can plotutils produce a variety of outputs?  Pstricks or EPS output
>   would be best; SVG would be a plus

It claims to be able to do PS, PNG and SVG, and some other obscure formats.
I've only used X, tek, and PNG. I don't think it'll do Pstricks.

What is the state of the are in open-source plot libraries these days?

-Mike Gran



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 15:21 Plotting in Guile Joel James Adamson
2010-07-28 16:04 ` Hans Aberg
2010-07-28 17:54   ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-28 18:26     ` Linas Vepstas
2010-07-28 18:43       ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-29  6:52         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-29 14:59           ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-29 15:14             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-29 17:34               ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-28 18:45     ` Hans Aberg
2010-07-28 18:50       ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-28 20:56         ` Hans Aberg
2010-07-29 18:57     ` Neil Jerram
2010-07-28 16:16 ` Mike Gran
2010-07-28 16:56   ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-28 17:20     ` Mike Gran [this message]
2010-07-28 17:59       ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-29  7:01   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-29 14:52     ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-29 15:21       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-29 17:31         ` Joel James Adamson
2010-07-29 18:43           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-30  2:40     ` Mike Gran
2010-07-30 12:19       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-03 13:46         ` Mike Gran
2010-08-03 19:20           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-04  5:14             ` Mike Gran
2010-08-04 13:12               ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-04 13:51                 ` Mike Gran
2010-08-04 15:21                   ` Joel James Adamson
2010-08-04 19:51                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-08-15 22:49                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-08-18 15:37 ` Andy Wingo
2010-08-18 17:03   ` Joel James Adamson

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