Gadfly has recently gotten the ability to do contour plots unless I'm mistaken, so hopefully that helps a bit. The \alpha<tab> business is actually a tab completion trick implemented in the Julia completion backend, rather than in the IJulia/IPython/Jupyter frontend. In markdown mode, you can use actual LaTeX input – as in $\alpha$.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Zahirul ALAM <zahirul.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Stefan. I did find out that I can type \alpha<tab> for Unicode α. > My point was more to do with the "traditional" input / output mode. > > btw if I am not mistaken I think in markup mode the \alpha<tab> does not > work. I guess not even auto complete works in markup mode when pressed tab. > May be I am doing it wrong. However it works just fine once the block is > "compiled". But I think that has nothing to do with IJulia. > > I have indeed met Gadfly. I had Gadfly in mind when I wrote that. It is > indeed very pretty. It is only for 2-D plotting, does not do contour or > density plot ( two types I tend to use the most). I am sure it will only > get improved. > > On Monday, 21 July 2014 14:48:17 UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Zahirul ALAM <zahiru...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> One feature I would like to see from IJulia may be is that the input of >>> greek and mathematical symbol in way that looks natural, e.g. using >>> subscript, in division, integration etc as way to input. This will >>> definitely be a significant improvement IMHO. >>> >> >> You can do Unicode input using LaTeX codes in IJulia by typing, e.g. >> \alpha<tab>, which will be turned into a Unicode α. That's not as fancy as >> what you can do in Mathematica, but I'm not sure we want to go there. I >> find editing Mathematica code pretty irritating and it's not that much >> better looking except for the "traditional" output mode, which you cannot >> use as an input format anyway. >> >> second feature is to be able to plot a function in a way one can do in >>> Mathematica. Plotting packages for Julia does this in very limited way >>> (unless I am missing something) >>> >> >> Have you met Gadfly <https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl>? >> >
