Re: grouping available terminals together

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 08:04, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> At the very bottom of
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=2055&atid=302055&file_id=215003&aid=1654807
> you can see which symbols I used for ConTeXt

> {\scale[scale=800]{$+$}},
> {\scale[scale=800]{$\times$}},
> $\ast$,
> {\scale[scale=700]{$\square$}},
> {\scale[scale=700]{$\blacksquare$}},
> $\circ$,
> $\bullet$,
> {\scale[scale=900]{$\triangleup$}},
> {\scale[scale=900]{$\blacktriangle$}},
> {\scale[scale=900]{$\triangledown$}},
> {\scale[scale=900]{$\blacktriangledown$}},
> {\scale[scale=800]{$\lozenge$}},
> {\scale[scale=800]{$\blacklozenge$}}%,

Yes, thanks.  I found these in a grand compendium of LaTeX symbols
after my earlier post.  We ended up with the same choices, except for
\square (which comes out a different size than \blacksquare).
 
> I would suggest to put something like
> 
> \def\GnuplotSymbol#1{\ifcase#1 \GpSymI \or \GpSymII \or \GpSymIV \or
> \GpSymV \or \GpSymVI \or \GpSymVII ... \fi }
> 
> and then
> 
> \def\GpSymI{$+$} % perhaps including the scale somewhere
> \def\GpSymII{$\times$}
> \def\GpSymIII{$\ast$}
> ... etc.

Similar to the PostScript prologue. Yes, that is not a bad idea.
The logical next step would be to create an actual gnuplot package
for TeX so that the user would do \usepackage{gnuplot} 


-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742