Re: [Gnuplot-info] (no subject)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Mon, 3 May 2004 er...@ne... wrote:

[Can you please hit <Return> every once in a while?  Your entire
mail was in only two lines of text, originally.  That's way too long.]

>   I recently purchased Red-Hat linux and have a dual-boot arrangement
> with Windows XP. Going through all the Unix commands for the first time,
> came upon gnuplot. Question (I emphasize that I did spend some time in
> the help manual, couldn't readily come up with the answer): is there an
> easy, or even moderately difficult way to either a) save a plot as an
> html or tiff file,

No.  Plots aren't web pages.  They can become *part* of a webpage though,
which is why gnuplot supports output as GIF or PNG files.  That should
handle your TIFF question, too.

> or redirect it to same (I tried the usual
> re-direction of the command ('>') and got an error msg.).

What error message exactly?  Remember you're not on Windows, so there's a
solid chance that error messages actually *mean* somehting.

> Can I use the vi editor to read in the graphic (plot) some way? In other
> words, can these plots be used in text files, e.g.,as part of a paper?

Huh?  Since when would papers have to be published as raw text?  Ever
learned of text processors, and their capabilities of including graphics
from external files?

To that end, gnuplot can write out graphics as postscript files, or as TeX
files with integrated PostScript fragments.  See "help postscript" and
"help pslatex".