Re: Now is it still impossible to use __gnuplot_X__ functions?

[etienne]

  Hi all,

Quoting Matthias Brennwald <address@hidden> (Tue, 12 Jan 2010  
21:00:56 +0100):

> On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:03 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Octave 3.2.3, Win Xp.
> >
> >
> >
> > The __gnuplot_X__ functions seem to have been deleted from octave,  
> > while sometimes i really want to used it.
> >
> > For example, i wish to output a .emf figure with linestyles  
> > "--","-.",":" et al., it is easy to realize in gnuplot, while i  
> > have no ideals for octave.
> >
> >
> > h=mesh(xx,yy,ZZ);
> >
> > set(gca,'fontsize',18,'LineWidth',3);
> > xlabel('C (mol/L)',"rotation", 45);
> > ylabel('B/ (??/min)',"rotation", 45);
> > view(56,59);
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > here, the rotation seems to no effect, i dont know how to make it  
> > effective, and i am thinking of  __gnuplot_X__ functions, however  
> > they have already be abandoned.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know that even without such functions , octave is competent to do  
> > it, but i dont know how to till now.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Jacky
>
> Two suggestions:
>
> 1. You might be able to send gnuplot commands through the stream  
> that is used for communication between Octave and gnuplot. I don't  
> know much about this, however. Someone else might be able to help  
> here.
>
> 2. Save your data to a file and use gnuplot to plot the data in this  
> file. Maybe you can make a gnuplot script and run gnuplot with this  
> script from within Octave using the system(...) command. This  
> applroach is independent of Octaves plotting mechanisms and will  
> allow you to use every gnuplot command you can think of.

I followed this approach and wrote some wrappers that you can find at
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/code/code.html#OctaveGnuplot.
I have more of the same, but not on the web. Let me know if you are  
interested.

  Cheers,

  Etienne

> Matthias
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