Re: [Groff] gnuplot gpic driver is spiffy

[Daniel Senderowicz]

I do use gnuplot with groff. I first set in gnuplot "set terminal
unixplot". You should have compiled gnuplot with that option. Then
I use plot2dev that you can download from

ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/plot2dev-1.0.tar.gz

You'll be getting a gremlin file that you can incorporate in your
document with the grn preprocessor. You can also edit this file
e.g. adding text or further drawings on top of it with gremlin that
you can download from:

ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff/xgremlin2-20001003.tar.bz2

Good luck.

Dan

>I am working with groff on a IBM laptop with Debian 2.2.  It was a 
>bit of a pain upgrading Groff to 1.16 by hand (many library changes).
>
>One of the reasons I was thinking of moving up to 1.17 was the addition
>of grap.  Now, I don't know if I have to.
>
>This weekend I finished a paper that contained graphs produced by gnuplot's
>gpic driver.  I was very pleased how well it worked.  I suppose Grap is far
>more convenient to work with, but gnuplot/gpic at least lets me do graphing
>with version 1.16.
>
>Perhaps If I have some spare time, I will work on a Groff/Gnuplot command 
>interface, something on the order of:
>
>.G3
>{{gnuplot commands to create the graph popdata.pic}}
>.G4
>.PS
>copy "popdata.pic"
>.PE
>
>Anyone else have any other ideas on integrating gnuplot ?