Contour plots (was "What should be set term, set output, set term, set term behavior?")

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> This has come to my attention because in Octave I'd wondered if there 
> was a way to leave a PostScript file or PDF file open, switch over to 
> X11 to do some plots, switch back to the PS or PDF terminal and place 
> another plot in the file.  (Octave does stem plots as two successive 
> plots.)


For those interested, the plot scripts of Octave have just been updated 
to plot all data at once as opposed to a series of "replots":

http://www.octave.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/scripts/plot/

This makes for nicer behavior in all plot terminals... and obviates the 
need for any alternate behavior of switching terminals when the output 
file is left open.

...

Also, I just want to confirm that gnuplot contours can't do the 
following type of labelling?

     ------ 20 ------

      ------------ 30 --------


If they can, let me know.  Otherwise, maybe a project for summer.

Dan