[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program

[Bernard Knaepen]

there is also a carbon version of gnuplot, not requiring fink or 
Xwindows (search with google)

Bernard.


>Dear Arun,
>
>thanks a lot for your detailed instructions
>(Octave interests me very much).
>I'll try to install fink in the next days.
>
>Bye and thanks again,
>	Alessandro
>
>On Mercoledì, maggio 22, 2002, at 03:27 , Arun Mangalam wrote:
>
>>If you want more information about gnuplot go to:
>>
>>	http://www.gnuplot.info
>>
>>There you can get the current source by CVS or by a tar-file. 
>>Follow the instructions in:
>>
>>	http://homepage.mac.com/persquare/
>>
>>to compile and such. The above homepage also contains AquaTerm for 
>>gnuplot which Serge mentioned.
>>
>>If I were you, I would simply install fink, and let it do it for 
>>you, especially if you want Octave [a nice MatLab-like package] to 
>>work automagically with gnuplot. If you're afraid of fink, have fun 
>>compiling everything yourself with the instructions in PerSquare's 
>>site.
>>
>>Also, if you install the X-windows [by a OSX package or by fink], 
>>fink can install xfig for you. And then with OroborOSX, you can 
>>hardly tell X-windows is running to run programs like fink.
>>
>>In summary, if I were interested in all the open-source goodies out 
>>there I would:
>>
>>1. install fink [http://fink.sourceforge.net/]
>>2. run "sudo dselect" to select the packages to install, such as:
>>     - xwindows
>>     - xfig
>>     - Octave
>>     - gnuplot
>>3. Install AquaTerm.app [http://homepage.mac.com/persquare/]
>>4. install Orobor [ http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/ ]
>>
>>That's it! Of course, you can install all sorts of other goodies 
>>with fink ... If you do the above, you get:
>>
>>--> xfig: a very nice vector graphic program that can output to PDF 
>>among myriads of other formats [you can also download many misc 
>>object palettes online]
>>--> Octave: a very good MatLab clone, so if matrix algebra, signal 
>>processing, control algorithms, or just convenient  array and 
>>vector routines suit your needs, this could work ... [it works in 
>>concert with gnuplot]
>>--> gnuplot [very nice plotter; outputs LaTeX, MetaPost, among other things]
>>
>>If any of you have an aerodynamic bent, I've successfully compiled 
>>and used XFoil, a very thorough open-source airfoil analyzer 
>>written by Mark Drela et al. It works with X-Windows...
>>
>>Anyway, you can ignore all these suggestions and stick with 
>>Calculator.app for your scientific needs if you wish, or wait till 
>>MatLab releases their long-overdue upgrade. ;-)
>>
>>- Arun
>>
>>On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 08:39 AM, Alessandro Languasco wrote:
>>
>>>thanks a lot for the infos about aquaterm. I would like to try it
>>>in connection with gnuplot but I don't know where (and which version)
>>>I have to download and compile.
>>>
>>>Please, can you (or anybody else) give me more hints about that ?
>>
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