Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as drawing graphs, why not just dump out a graph in any kind of > portable format (e.g. postscript, pdf, svg, etc). A front-end can parse > it and display it. There are many relevant lisp libraries: > http://www.cliki.net/graphics%20library > http://www.cliki.net/plotting Because there is a difference between the plot data and the resulting plot and producing the latter from the former isn't easy. The plot contains all kinds of objects like grid lines, axis, a title etc. This implies that we need tons of plotting code inside the core of Axiom. The plot data that Axiom produces should be an easily parseable description of the points/lines/surfaces that are to be displayed, as well as all additional options that the user supplied, like colours, axis etc.
As for the GUI, different people will prefer different plotters (layout, output formats, ...). Kai _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
