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- From: bmb11@cus.cam.ac.uk (B.M. Bolker)
- Subject: gnuplot_X11 bug? and wish list
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.085304.10061@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Summary: X11 driver problem with point and dot colours
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- Organization: U of Cambridge, England
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:53:04 GMT
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- Hello all, I'm extremely happy with gnuplot 3.2 on SPARC and PC.
- I have a minor problem, which I'm not X-literate enough to fix. It
- seems that dots and points *always* come out in colour 1 (red) in my
- X11 plots ... this doesn't happen with the PC version. Any thoughts?
-
- While I'm at it, here's my wish list ...
- (Many of these have been mentioned by others--I'll mark them *)
-
- Ability to use column 0 (line numbers) with 'errorbars' directive
- Line breaks in text in drivers besides Imagen, EEPIC, LaTeX?
- Multiple plots out of a single session -- I've been using the
- "-fork" mode patch that someone sent in, but a "holdplot"
- variable to produce multiple plots per session would be lovely
- (obviously this would be restricted to X11 or other windows)
- *Orderless syntax -- e.g. being able to put "with" before "using"
- *Ability automatically to plot all the columns in a file as
- y-variates, with the first column as the x-variate. I imagine
- that an `mplot' directive ("mplot `foo.dat' using 1:(2,4,5)"?)
- might be a good way to do this ...
- Slightly improved 3-D grids and face grids -- i.e., being able to
- draw the box around the data.
- *Ability to put columns of data into variables and do *simple*
- operations (the functions that are already built into gnuplot)
- on them ... e.g. "j = read `foo.dat'", "plot j", "plot log(j)".
- I realize that this suggestion comes close to the argument that
- gnuplot is a plotting tool and not a data analysis tool, but
- some small amount of support for this kind of work would be
- nice.
-
- Given enough time I may try to hack some of these myself, but it
- could take a while ...
- Thanks to all who have contributed to gnuplot.
-
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- Benjamin Bolker Cambridge Univ. Dep't of Zoology
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