On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:38:42PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > ... If I > can figure out how to make minor tick gridlines do what I want, > I will be 99% satisfied. I prefer dense minor gridlines, plotted > in faint bluegreen ( rgb #C0FFEE ) like the graph paper of my youth.
I figured out how to do that - the magic tricks are "set style line", "set m*tics", and "set grid". Here is an example that prints some dense graph paper beneath the plots: set style line 8 lt 1 lw 1 lc rgb "#C0FFEE" set style line 9 lt 1 lw 0.5 lc rgb "#C0FFEE" set mxtics 10 set mytics 10 set grid xtics ytics mxtics mytics ls 8 , ls 9 This looks great on an HP2605dtn color laser printer. For your amusement, the entire gnuplot script I use ( for plotting the DC characteristics of a typical TSMC 0.13um diode connected PFET and an NFET ) is at http://www.kl-ic.com/gnuplot_example . > I would prefer to install from an RPM, but I couldn't find any and > I do not know an easy way to make one. Separate subject, is there > a magical tool that will take a standard "automake" package ( using > the mantra "./configure, make, make install" that we all know and > love ) and auto-magically produce an RPM? Some helpful people suggested "checkinstall", and that works fine, so I built a gnuplot rpm for SL5: http://www.kl-ic.com/gnuplot-4.2.2-1.sl5.i386.rpm This version will not make PDFs, as my system does not have libpdf and I did not want to build in the dependency. I don't know how much attention checkinstall pays to dependencies, so I don't know how portable this rpm is. But it might be useful as a "contrib" for SL5, if somebody wants to add it to the archive. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
