On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
Yes, Rich. An example is below.
Thanks, Paul.
I now know the power of pstricks, but what I have yet to discover is whether the effort of coding everything is worthwhile for many illustrations. This comment is not meant to ignite a flame war or cast aspersions on pstricks but to express my lack of familiarity with the tool. There are a number of vector drawing programs for linux (xfig is probably the best known and tgif is my favorite) that can do many static figures more quickly. There are also gnuplot and gri for data plotting; these, too, are hand coded and not drawn interactively so this may be less of an issue with data plots.
Where I see the value of pstricks is plotting data output from model runs. The axes can be set as a template and the data plotted as it's generated. Since the textual output of model run progress will be applied to a LaTeX template the addition of pstricks will produce output that can't be beat for visual appeal.
Rich
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