On Friday 21 July 2006 15:22, David Wooten wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Thus I'm curious as to what others use... is R an efficient method to > >> produce elegant charts? Is straight MetaPost preferable? > > > > With metapost you can surely achive most beautiful results and it is > > not as difficult to learn as TeX-programming. Of course you might need > > more time to draw what you need or to write your own set of macros, > > but if you have high demands about quality this might be the way to > > go. > > > > However, if you prefer doing it quicly using the existing tools (be > > aware that you have to learn how to use those tools as well), R or > > gnuplot might be an interesting choice. You'll be limited by the power > > of those two tools, but in most cases they should suffice for the > > normal usage. > > > > The gnuplot module is still in development (I've been just begging > > Hans for help a few hours ago ;). Take a look at the demo section of > > gnuplot (http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.1/) to see if it can > > offer you what you want to do. In that case ask on the list again, > > I'll give you further pointers how to use it with ConTeXt > > (http://pub.mojca.org/gnuplot). > > > > But basically you can take any program to draw graphs and include the > > resulting PDFs. I'm afraid that the macros from the paper which you > > pointed to, use some PostScript code that cannot be handled as-is (you > > need some conversion to PDF first) and I'm affraid that the effort put > > into making it work woudn't pay off now that you have a great varienty > > of other plotting programs, including metapost itself (esp. if the > > package has never been released - you'll probably hardly get any > > support for it). > > > > Mojca > > Thanks very much for your reply. Your advice seems strong, and in truth > I have been intrigued by MetaPost for many years. This certainly seems a > valid excuse to delve into it ;) > > David > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context I have always found Pstricks to be very useful. There is a module m-pstric.tex that you can look at. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
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