jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) (06/11/88)
Do any on you TeX/LaTeX users know of any good software for creating graphs and figures? I'd like to be able to represent "X-Y" plots as .tex files that I can read into a TeX document. I want the ability to label axes, insert titles, put in tic-marks, overlay grids, etc. I'd like the software to be as device independent as possible. For example, I'd like to be able to create a plot by writing a simple program; its output would be TeX commands. Any suggestions?
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (06/11/88)
| Do any on you TeX/LaTeX users know of any good software for |creating graphs and figures? I'd like to be able to |represent "X-Y" plots as .tex files that I can read into a TeX |document. I want the ability to label axes, insert titles, put in |tic-marks, overlay grids, etc. I'd like the software to be as device |independent as possible. | | For example, I'd like to be able to create |a plot by writing a simple program; its output would be |TeX commands. | | Any suggestions? TeX is not terribly good at making pictures. There is PicTeX, a macro package for doing some of this, but it easily eats up a lot of memory even for small pictures. I would suggest you do it with an another program (gnuplot, grap, plot, whatever), generate PostScript or something like that and then include it in your TeX file with a \special. Ken