[Gllug] Graphing apps

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Tue Nov 23 22:08:34 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:55:30PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:24:59PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> > All I want is something that lets me do fairly simple graphs of
> > multi sample data. 
> ...
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I've used MetaPost to create beautiful graphs in the past. It's very
> powerful, but can be a bit of a pain to come to terms with. I've not
> touched it in a couple of years now though, so I can't say just how
> suitable it is for what you're doing, but it's probably worth a shot.
> 
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html

I've actually written out a lot of stuff directly in Postscript.  It's
possible to create graphs with (relative) ease.  Having the Postscript
"red book" around helps a lot.

Rich.

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