[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program
Arun Mangalam
arun_mangalam at mac.com
Wed May 22 09:27:37 EDT 2002
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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