Re: publication quality graphs

[Stuart Prescott <debian@nanonanonano.net>]

Hi again,

thanks for your responses so far -- some interesting ideas

I had a play with PyX some more yesterday and piped the data through the
aspline utility (package: spline) to get an interpolated smooth curve.
That worked quite nicely for me (using the python pipes object to stream
in the data). I'm quite liking pyx as a concept, although I'm still not
convinced that it's a sustainable approach in the long run.

But I did realise that it's not particularly efficient to be trying to
do this in python (which I will have to learn to use PyX) instead of
perl (which I am quite comfortable in). Anyone know of a perl graphing
module with the power of PyX?


Jamie, I can't help you with octave questions, but I can help with the
others: 

* xmgrace
my typo: s/xmggrace/xmgrace/ sorry.
As already noted, it's in the package grace6 (or grace, diff versions
etc) as it is a rewrite of an older program called xmgr

* qtiplot 
has no debian package available (for free at least). Source is available
from
	http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
It has a few dependencies, you'll also need to compile qwtplot3d
yourself, the rest are in Debian. 

* pyx 
pyx is a python package so the package is called python-pyx



Finally, Neil Pilgrim wrote:
> > * OOo calc
> Maybe this will improve in the upcoming version 2?

If only. Despite many many requests for this feature, it's only just got
a target milestone... OOo3.0 so don't hold your breath.

	http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3997


cheers
Stuart