[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program

[Alessandro Languasco]

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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