Re: gnuplot question - "Specify an entire line to be inserted in the Gnuplot script."

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Michael C Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> writes:

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> On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
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>> I would recommending using a gnuplot code block rather than a plot line,
>> and passing your data to the code block using a variable.  Code blocks
>> give you much more direct access to gnuplot, which I find generally
>> makes gnuplot learning/debugging much easier.
>> 
>> see http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-With-Source-Code.html
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> Thank you, Eric. You're generous with your time

Happy to help, and I already had the example usage on hand.

> and you're absolutely correct. This is the direction I will
> go. There's no doubt that this seems the right way to go for anything
> sophisticated. And like most solutions, it will then end up my
> standard approach. However, it also means I will put this off for a
> little while until I'm ready to do it right. Maybe just a few days,
> but...
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> That means that, in the mean time, if you or anyone has an example of
> how to configure this using the line: formatting, it would still be
> useful to me and I would still be grateful. I just have something
> small I need to produce tonight or tomorrow, for doing some simple
> blood pressure tracking. I have everything working except a couple of
> reference lines running across the plot. I'm figuring since it's in
> the documentation, there must be something somewhere that shows the
> syntax, yes?
>

This is probably the best reference for using plot lines.  If you can't
find what you're looking for there it may not exist...
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.html

Cheers -- Eric

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> — Michael
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Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/