I have found Ploticus to actually give nicer results than Gnuplot. http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/gall.hbars.html#timeline (And there is a SVG & EPS along with bitmap output which is nice)
This package using Ploticus looks right up your alley http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm I also ran across a TeX based timeline macro - http://www.tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Nodes/nodes#timeline Regards, Martin Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benno Sent: Monday, 22 August 2005 9:27 PM To: Thomas Schröder Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SLUG] timeline generation software On Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 16:39:35 +0200, Thomas Schr?der wrote: >Hi Benno, > >gplot should do it I think > >http://gplot.sourceforge.net/ Gplot seems to just be a frontend to gnuplot, which is fairly competent at generating some fairly sophisticated graphs but doesn't really do timelines. I guesss I could force it to plot just along the X-axis, but gnuplot output isn't the most aesthetically pleasing about :(. Thanks, Benno >Cheers, >Thomas > >Am Donnerstag, 18. August 2005 07:33 schrieb Benno: >> Does anyone know of some (open source) software that will generate a >> pretty look timeline? I'd like something that takes: >> >> 1975 Foo >> 1976 Bar >> 1980 Baz >> 1985 Qar >> >> and produces something like this in EPS: >> >> >> + >> >> | 1975 1980 1985 >> | Foo Baz Qar >> >> +---------+--+-----+------+--------> >> 1976 >> Bar >> >> I'm sure I could manually do this in Xfig, but that will take me all >> day. I'm also sure I could write something myself to do it but that >> sounds like perverse procrastination, so I'd prefer not to. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Benno > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
