Re: gnuplot output from print?

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton skrev:
> On  6-Sep-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton skrev:
> | > | 3) I can't figure out how to use it :-)
> | > 
> | > You currently have to choose a terminal type, so try:
> | > 
> | >   print -deps -debug=FILE.gp
> | > 
> | > I chose this -debug=FILE syntax to simplify argument processing and
> | > minimize the changes to the print function.
> | I tried this:
> | 
> |    plot(sin(linspace(0, 2*pi, 100)))
> |    print -deps -debug=FILE.gp
> | 
> | which gives me the following error/warning:
> | 
> |    lpr: Error - no default destination available.
> | 
> | and a file called '=FILE.gp'. This file is however very usable to me.
>
> Oops, I should have said that you currently have to choose a terminal
> type and output file, so try something like:
>
>     print -deps -debug=FILE.gp FILE.eps
This makes the error go away, but the resulting file is still called 
'=FILE.gp'.

> | P.S. I really love this feature :-) With this, we can have both matlab 
> | compatible plotting and great gnuplot support. The best of both worlds...
>
> The only drawback that I see is that it encourages people to continue
> doing gnuplot-specific tricks for plotting that will likely stop
> working at some point.
I guess the gnuplot specific stuff will happen outside of Octave as 
Octave doesn't help you change the details of the gnuplot file. So, if 
we drop gnuplot at some point in the future, we could still keep the 
support for printing to a gnuplot file (I guess, but the future will tell).

Søren