[Gllug] is LaTex the way to do this?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, October 21, 2008 4:13 pm, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> 2008/10/17 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
>>> jfreechart might do it
>>>
>>> http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html
>>
>> Chartjunk-tastic.  You'd think that people who do charts for a living
>> would have read Tufte ...
>
> jfreechart is a great way to make a simple problem really hard. The
> lack of documentation is made crippliing by it's byzantine API,
> rubbish javadocs, and bugs. You can find a bunch of examples on the
> internet if you look hard (I don't have a link to hand) that pre-date
> the policy of "pay for usable documentation and example code".
>
> I'll chuck in gnuplot (which makes the simple stuff easy, and the hard
> stuff potentially in reach of a dedicated team of professionals).
>
>
I've actually found LaTeX plus pgf (iirc) works pretty well: though I've
yet to devote a lot of time to really making it do much beywond draing
coloured circles for now.

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