From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Plotting in Guile Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <126176.72239.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <713492.93290.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280338070 10540 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 17:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Joel James Adamson Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 19:27:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeAPv-0004r9-J5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:27:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeAPu-0000Z5-P4 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57637 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeAOo-0008P2-6h for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeAIY-0003xr-LG for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.163]:46916) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeAIY-0003xj-CK for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 72479 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Jul 2010 17:20:02 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1280337602; bh=NRdGkRuDWykLMtfTwOVzBPH1aBfH+GK3bjSY/r8C8xg=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=36ZywP7jd6jJOeKBPToH0yqvMvtnjeleMcWxorxpNqMVJ7IT1/kpN3qMtNvm1nxNafq7Er5riMYg+s/uBSrxdY+a2Ju32QyxD5waQNAGco+xJLeD/7B/JDO2tZNmom5LFsWZRhssLsbFp60LlHL99lfl2NGwDj9r1ZmjRKRJOJM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Uq8TN0GZ1S3BJMvFd5AqozoN/CJWnHv6OEVOHiVMRHSfQDf2uGxTXLKgNdb1z+oq2CkmaRshKrXEvgK4paV9HCwp1T+V6+V8zKPx53Gj01avHcCnL+eMLkBSCnHY6rqYKHBmXUHrguWH3ODhWMHsW7Cs1b08Q1xJqeIjc+NIm34=; X-YMail-OSG: 9sP0GW8VM1m3gY8M_0_hn2bntFLojepzfN6vWnsBR680jsC QaRGhi0mcVLFtty86CRnsZrHW6wNYgOTphoVOazPBIyBR_hL73mmog4nmIer L8BGi7xzlw5aKJm876lSPJ3Kjk1FOuMhdSE1jiq0Ep2Wwki.Pmba0DQk49st 9kxhyyCDd8kMyM1FIGJya91rpOtY2eQFX.STK88yUvNQK7vK1VngIRjUmOig gBI1uQ7Zpyz7z1fQFbTliINes5OVQL9R5QNAG4ehEgAZLuq_Z5Wtn0iFGgLc MxxWKmQu8b4ds.fCA8m56NkVT4My4K3M1QEzlKeg- Original-Received: from [207.8.91.2] by web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:20:01 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.105.279950 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8016 Archived-At: > > For my own personal use, I have a Guile binding of GNU Plotutils.=A0 I = had=0A> > planned that someday I'd=A0clean it up and making it available.= =A0 It has most=0A> > of the functionality of the GNU Plotutils 'graph' pro= gram.=A0 =0A> =0A> My questions:=0A> 1.=A0 What is the status of Plotutils?= =A0 I looked into it a while ago and=0A> =A0 =A0 it seemed really out of da= te and seemed to have a very small user=0A> =A0 =A0 community=0A=0AI think = it is more dead than alive, I think.=A0 There are bug-fix releases, =0Aincl= uding one in late 2009, but, the official gnu website hasn't been updated = =0Ain a decade or so.=A0 There is no git repo, so it is hard to know if any= work=0Ais being done on it.=0A=0AEven so, it does a great job at your stan= dard 2D graphs.=0A=0A> 2. Can plotutils produce a variety of outputs?=A0 Ps= tricks or EPS output=0A> =A0 would be best; SVG would be a plus=0A=0AIt=A0c= laims to be able to=A0do PS, PNG=A0and SVG, and some other obscure formats.= =0AI've only used X, tek, and PNG. I don't think it'll do Pstricks.=0A=0AWh= at is the state of the are in open-source plot libraries these days?=0A=0A-= Mike Gran