Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here, I'd like to describe how I normally plot data and why the various > apps that I've tried don't work for me (below).
Very thorough description and comparison. Good work! > *gri > Works great for me for quick scriptable graphing to condense the data > from several hundred simulations into a few graphs with minimal work. Gri doesn't do 3D plots, but it's pretty good at lines, contours and converting data grids to grayscale or colour images. Gri is written and maintained by a friend of mine (Dan Kelley), a professor in physical oceanography who was also my Ph.D. advisor. Although he's busy with other things at this time of year, he's pretty responsive to adding features. I'm the Debian maintainer for Gri. If you'd like to see what it's all about, see the docs at: http://gri.sourceforge.net/ http://gri.sourceforge.net/docs.php some example code and resulting figures at: http://gri.sourceforge.net/gri-cookbook/index.html and the manual itself at: http://gri.sourceforge.net/gridoc/html/index.html I'm also the author of it's gri-mode. The Emacs mode really helps to write Gri code with the following features: - It can complete partially typed commands, builtin variables and synonyms (`gri-complete', `M-Tab') and help you edit the syntax that was thus inserted for you (`gri-option-select', `C-c C-o'; `gri-option-kill', `C-c C-k'). - It can provide a short help synopsis concerning the command on the current line (`gri-help-this-command', `C-c C-h'), or load the info manual for that command (`gri-info-this-command', `C-c C-i'). It knows the list of all Gri commands, and can provide help or info regarding any of them (`gri-help', `C-c M-h'; `gri-info', `C-c M-i') using command name completion at the prompt (`Tab'). - All Gri commands are listed in a pull-down menu from the menubar, which you can use to either enter the text of the selected command, or obtain help or info about it. etc. See http://gri.sourceforge.net/gridoc/html/Emacs.html > But you can't quite get production quality graphs out of it (e.g. you > can't have non-italicised subscripts or superscripts). I'm sure this could be configurable. Please file a feature request at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gri/ I use Gri exclusively and publish in various oceanographic journals. Since it's a scripted language, it can also be automated which is good for repeated tasks and web sites. I made all the figures seen on this web site using Gri: http://www.osl.gc.ca/tsg/index-e.html -- Peter S. Galbraith, Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~psg GPG key 1024/D2A913A1 - 97CE 866F F579 96EE 6E68 8170 35FF 799E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
