[OS X TeX] Simple Illustration Program

[Gina Wilson]

Just some info - the carbon version of gnuplot reads data with mac line 
endings and the fink version reads data with unix line endings.  I know 
you can switch back and forth but if you have lots of data with one type 
of line endings (like me) I have found it easier to just use the 
corresponding version.

Gina
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 10:11  AM, Bernard Knaepen wrote:

> 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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