Thank you all for attempting to enlighten me. Even the suggestions I
didn't follow helped me understand the alternatives.
I said:
>... will I have to figure out the syntax well enough to roll my own?
I decided to roll my own. The reason is the attraction of making LyX work
off the gnuplot file instead of the *.eps file, with the associated risk
that the *.eps file will become out-of-date.
My strategy is as follows:
1. Cat the last attachment on this message and
lib/external_templates to ~/.lyx/external_templates.
Unfortunately, LyX only supports substitution for
lib/external_templates, not additions to it. That means
I get to cat again every time I upgrade LyX (groan).
2. Put copies of the previous two attachments, eps.gnuplot and
ascii.gnuplot into any directory that contains Gnuplot plot
files.
3. Make each Gnuplot plot file (*.gnu) self-contained. It should
contain all commands and all data required to create the plot.
LyX will be tracking the plot files. If they only contain
commands and the data are elsewhere, changes in data won't cause
LyX to remake the *.eps file (or the ASCII text). An example is
the first attachment to this message.
While at it, I discovered a buglet in $$Sysdir/scripts/general_command_wrap
per.py. The statement that prints the redirection message left out a
blank before the file name:
--- general_command_wrapper.py.orig Thu Nov 13 14:40:21 2003
+++ general_command_wrapper.py Fri Dec 5 15:24:21 2003
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
os.close(0)
sys.stdin = open(sys.argv[1],"r")
if sys.argv[2] != "-":
- print "Redirecting" + sys.argv[2]
+ print "Redirecting " + sys.argv[2]
os.close(1)
os.close(2)
sys.stdout = open(sys.argv[2],"w")
Some things I don't like:
1. Eps.gnuplot and ascii.gnuplot should not exist. There ought to
be a way to tell Gnuplot to select a terminal type from the
command line. I don't the way.
2. So what is the "standard" file name extension of Gnuplot command
files? I used *.gnu, but Richard Stallman might have other ideas
about what that extension should be used for.
3. I only care about the LaTeX format. I didn't test Ascii, DocBook,
and LinuxDoc. Should there be others?
Any comments or criticisms will be appreciated.
set xlabel "Simultaneous Copies"
set ylabel "MFlop/sec"
plot '-' title "Power 4" with linespoints, \
'-' title "Chapman" with linespoints
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set terminal postscript eps monochrome
set terminal dumb feed
Template Gnuplot
GuiName "[Gnuplot: $$FName]"
HelpText
A Gnuplot graph file.
File name is of the form, *.gnu.
Copies of eps.gnuplot and ascii.gnuplot
must exist in the same directory as
the Gnuplot graph files.
HelpTextEnd
FileFilter "*.gnu"
ViewCommand "gv $$Basename.eps"
EditCommand "${VISUAL} $$FName"
AutomaticProduction true
Format LaTeX
Product "\\includegraphics{$$Basename.eps}"
UpdateCommand "python $$Sysdir/scripts/general_command_wrapper.py -
$$Basename.eps gnuplot eps.gnuplot $$FName"
UpdateResult "$$Basename.eps"
Requirement "graphicx"
FormatEnd
Format Ascii
Product "$$Contents(\"$$Tempname\")"
UpdateCommand "python $$Sysdir/scripts/general_command_wrapper.py -
$$Tempname gnuplot ascii.gnuplot $$FName"
FormatEnd
Format DocBook
Product "<graphic fileref=\"$$Basename.eps\"></graphic>"
UpdateCommand "python $$Sysdir/scripts/general_command_wrapper.py -
$$Basename.eps gnuplot eps.gnuplot $$FName"
UpdateResult "$$Basename.eps"
FormatEnd
Format LinuxDoc
Product "[Gnuplot: $$FName]"
FormatEnd
TemplateEnd
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