Hi, is is possible to add some polynomes to the supported functions? I'm thinking of the spherical harmonics (and thus of the associated Legendre functions),...
Tobias Burnus
burnus@...
Jul 9, 2000 9:27 pm
3797
Hi, it sounds as if someone wants you to plot the wave functions of the hydrogen atom? Adding a few polynomials is a nice idea, but where do you draw the line?...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 10, 2000 1:59 pm
3798
... Possible it sure is. The question is: who will sit down and implement it? And how much do people need it to be builtin, as opposed to implementing them as...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 10, 2000 4:00 pm
3799
... That's how I stumbled across it again the other day, but both would be good to cover, for the eternal problems with atomic vs. SI units, F vs. deg....
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:03 am
3800
... Except for setting the ranges. It might be necessary to use a hard-to-create inverse function to set the range of one or the other of the axes. set axis...
Jeff Spirko
spirko@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:03 am
3801
... True. They are used for roughly similar ideas, though: displaying functions or data implicitly as a relation between the x2 and x1 axis. My idea focusses...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:03 am
3802
... Yup. ... N(r)aaaaa, freedom to the user! Let 'em shoot themselves in the foot while trying to pull that gun out of the holster! In any case, most things...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:03 am
3803
... Well, that's what we have computers for, don't we? No, honestly, of course it shouldn't invent / find the scaling function, and of course this will give...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:03 am
3804
... I'm pretty sure there are two suggested features. One would be to set ranges exactly to data instead of extending to a tic-mark. The other would be to ...
Jeff Spirko
spirko@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:04 am
3805
... The question immediately rising in my head as I read this was: if *you* don't know the scaling function, how do you suppose gnuplot to invent one? Unless...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:04 am
3806
... Not if you enclose it in save term 'myterm.gpl' set term unknown # your code here load 'myterm.gpl' Or you can just 'set output' again after the 'dummy'...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:04 am
3807
... Sure, that works, and it's a good workaround for the literate, but I am afraid it's not overly intuitive for the ones who kinda just want to plot stuff ......
... It works OK in 3.7.1 as well as in the latest development code. You can download precompiled OS/2 binaries of the current development code from...
Petr Mikulik
mikulik@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:05 am
3810
... Well, it tells me that sed, or awk, or grep, or what ever are not known. So, plot "foobar" works, plot "< grep -v # foobar" does not. The programs I try to...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3811
... True, that's a good kludge. But ... if you print to a postscript file / printer from a batch, rather than to a screen, you always get one page that you...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3812
... That's fine, but does not yet address simply taking the axis bounds out of the data file, does it? ... True. I could live with a first order approximation...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3813
... Breaks it *how*? Any symptoms, error messages or whatever? Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@...) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3814
... You can do: set x2 [] writeback replot set noauto x2 replot Kind of cumbersome, but scriptable. ... I was thinking of something like this, allowing...
Jeff Spirko
spirko@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3815
... To simplify discussion, let's generalize this to: plot 'datafile' using 1:2 axes x1y1, \ '' using (f($1)):2 axes x2y1 (for some monotonous...
Hans-Bernhard Broeker
broeker@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3816
Howdy, I am back. I have already a quick suggestion (probably not so quick to implement) that stems from trying to do the following: Suppose I have a data file...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:09 am
3817
... Outstanding! Thanks, that was a long-time favourite grief of mine. Cheers, Stefan -- ...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:10 am
3818
Howdy, has anybody lately tried on the OS/2 version something as nice as plot "< grep '^ *0 ' fc-l00-sl00-sigma001.000.tmp" using 3:4 This makes life a lot...
Stefan A. Deutscher
swbdedes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:10 am
3819
Hi, I hate that gnuplot writes filenames in keys as enhanced text for enhanced postscript or Presentation Manager terminals: filenames containing underscore...
Petr Mikulik
mikulik@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:10 am
3820
... I put a tar.gz of the today's version at ftp://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/pub/gnuplot/ I hope ftp is ok with your firewall. I didn't check if I've tarred in...
Johannes Zellner
johannes@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:10 am
3821
... I was just thinking that. You do have to plot your data twice. But, the first plot can be sent to nothingland. set output "/dev/null" # in Unix set...
Jeff Spirko
spirko@...
Jul 13, 2000 5:11 am
3822
Here is an updated patch to avoid writing filenames in keys as enhanced text in enhanced-text capable terminals (currently implemented for postscript only)....
Petr Mikulik
mikulik@...
Jul 13, 2000 10:29 am
3823
... Two possibilities come to mind: 1) a new TERMINFO entry point or flag to communicate this to every terminal driver needing it. I'm partly against this:...