Re: [mesa-users] Using Tioga

[Roni W. <ron...@gm...>]

Hi Bill,
Many thanks.
So now I got an HR plot.
How do I get other types of plots, e.g. a Kippenhahn plot?
Cheers,
Roni

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Paxton [mailto:pa...@ki...]
> Sent: יום א 09 אוקטובר 2011 16:02
> To: Roni Waldman
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] Using Tioga
> 
> Hi Roni,
> 
> Good to hear from you!
> 
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Roni Waldman wrote:
> 
> > Obviously I'm doing something basically wrong.
> 
> you need to use the "tioga" command instead of just plain "ruby"
> if the install worked okay, you should be able to get a brief "help"
> just by typing tioga at the command line.  It outputs the following.
> Let me know if you have problems.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> /Users/bpaxton/mesa: tioga
> 
> This program is a command line interface for the open-source tioga
> kernel.
> The tioga kernel is for creating figures and plots using Ruby, PDF, and
> TeX.
> Following is a brief description of the tioga command line options.
> For more information, visit
> http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga.html.
> 
> Before any command line information is processed, tioga runs
> ~/.tiogainit if it exists.
>     The primary use of this file is to set your default pdf viewer
> command (see below).
> 
> If there are no command line arguments, or the argument is -h, this
> help info is output.
> 
> Otherwise, the command line should start with a tioga file name (with
> extension .rb).
>      Since the extension is known, you can skip typing it if you like.
> 
> The remainder of the command line should consist of an optional series
> of control commands
>     followed by a figure command.
> 
> Any control commands are done after ~/.tiogainit and before the figure
> file is loaded.
>      -r file      runs the file (using Ruby's require method).
>      -C dir       changes the working directory.
>                   If there is no -C command, tioga changes the working
> directory to the
>                   location of the figure file .
>      -v           prints version information.
> 
> The figure command comes last and should be one of these:
>      -l           output a list of the defined figures by number and
> name.
>      -<num>       make and show figure with index equal <num> (0 <= num
> < num_figures).
>      -m <figs>    make PDFs without showing them in the viewer.
>      -s <figs>    make and show PDFs, each in a separate viewer window.
>      -p <figs>    make PDFs and show the portfolio as a multi-page
> document.
> 
> If the figure command is omitted, then it defaults to -0.
> 
> If <figs> is omitted, then tioga does all the figures defined in the
> file
>      ordered by their definition index numbers.
> 
> Otherwise, <figs> must be either
>      a defined figure name (as supplied to def_figure in the tioga
> file), or
>      a valid ruby array index number for a figure (can be negative), or
>      a valid ruby range specification selecting a sequence of figures,
> or
>      a space-less, comma-separated list of figure indices and ranges.
> 
>      For example, -s Plot1 makes and shows the pdf for the figure named
> Plot1,
>      and -p 5,0..3,-1 makes a portfolio with the figure having index 5
> on page 1,
>      followed by pages showing the figures with indices 0, 1, 2, 3, and
> -1.
> 
> The viewer for showing PDFs is specified by the $pdf_viewer variable in
> tioga.
>      The default value can be set by creating a .tiogainit file in your
> home directory.
>      The .tiogainit file is run before any command line options are
> processed.
>      Your current setting for $pdf_viewer is repreview.
>      To change it, edit ~/.tiogainit to add the line $pdf_viewer = 'my
> viewer command'.
>      The command tioga uses to show a pdf is $pdf_viewer + ' ' +
> full_PDF_filename.
>      You can use the -e control command to try a different viewer
> setting
>      by doing the $pdf_viewer assignment from the command line.
> 
> 
>