On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 22:44, Florian Wobbe wrote: > On Nov 22, 2010, at 22:03 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 20:15, Florian Wobbe wrote: >> >>> Especially for line drawings it would be beneficial not to place every >>> single point. Instead consecutive points should be skipped if they are >>> close to each other (with regard to plot units) - it makes no sense to >>> include points which you won't see anyway. This could be done by defining a >>> grid with a certain (user defined) resolution and rounding the coordinates >>> (plot units) of a line point to the nearest grid node. All consecutive line >>> points falling on the same grid node should not be passed on to terminal >>> drivers. The psxy utility of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does this >>> for instance. I am not aware of such a functionality within gnuplot but it >>> would be a nice feature. >> >> But this is an issue of Gnuplot, not something that a terminal writer >> is supposed to think of. > > Indeed, this was my point in the first place. It should be handled by gnuplot > prior to handing the data over to the terminal driver.
However you need to write to gnuplot-dev then. This mailing list cannot help you. >> But yes, it would be nice if also ConTeXt terminal would be included. >> It still doesn't support raw images, but most other features are >> present. > > Right, this might help increase the awareness among academics. Also not > everyone has the ability to build gnuplot from sources. But as I said ... there have to be others writing on gnuplot-dev to show interest to other gnuplot developers. I will continue to work with Peter to improve TikZ output and to include support into t-gnuplot.tex, but comparison such as the speed test demonstrated with those random points (sent to dev-gnuplot) may help. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
