From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joel James Adamson Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Plotting in Guile Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <713492.93290.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <126176.72239.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280339974 17522 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 17:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 19:59:33 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 1OeAuj-0002MS-2h for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:59:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeAui-0000sD-K1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48779 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeAub-0000s8-KB for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeAua-0003fk-1k for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu ([152.2.67.61]:52694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeAuZ-0003fd-Pb for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu (chondestes.bio.unc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6SHxMkC020962; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: (from joel@localhost) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o6SHxMrR020961; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:59:22 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: chondestes.bio.unc.edu: joel set sender to adamsonj@email.unc.edu using -f In-Reply-To: <126176.72239.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:8018 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Gran writes: >> > For my own personal use, I have a Guile binding of GNU Plotutils.=C2= =A0 I had >> > planned that someday I'd=C2=A0clean it up and making it available.=C2= =A0 It has most >> > of the functionality of the GNU Plotutils 'graph' program.=C2=A0=20 >>=20 >> My questions: >> 1.=C2=A0 What is the status of Plotutils?=C2=A0 I looked into it a while= ago and >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 it seemed really out of date and seemed to have a very sma= ll user >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 community > > I think it is more dead than alive, I think.=C2=A0 There are bug-fix > releases, including one in late 2009, but, the official gnu website > hasn't been updated in a decade or so.=C2=A0 There is no git repo, so it = is > hard to know if any work is being done on it. I've just created svg and ps versions of one graph using "graph." Pretty easy. The big problem is getting the look of the rest of my LaTeX document within the graph (e.g. axis labels). I wouldn't want to get a new look just so I can use a particular graphing package when another offers the more flexible option. > What is the state of the are in open-source plot libraries these days? It seems the best options are GNUPLOT and a relative newcomer called PLPlot[1] that I will try out today. Joel Footnotes:=20 [1] http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ =2D-=20 Joel J. Adamson Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAkxQb/kACgkQp61eY7lvATL8hAD/Zgt0l2PITs6ck644gvMoLPbI q85rWysKHq4a1+gyOzcA/Rarndcl89sxFbVnYIXtoqKQInHkPSMwjkTkBqRZL0uL =NrIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--