Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: plotting environment in TeX? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 10:18:24 GMT References: <1990Jan15.155034.2271@ecf.utoronto.ca> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 23 In-reply-to: apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca's message of 15 Jan 90 15:50:34 GMT >>>>> On 15 Jan 90 15:50:34 GMT, apollo@ecf.utoronto.ca (Vince Pugliese) said: > does anyone know of a set of plotting macros for use in TeX along the > lines of grap from as in Documenter's Workbench? PiCTeX and gnutex both do plotting, though neither in as clear or easy way as grap in my view. PiCTeX is good, but slow and memory-hungry. Both bits of software are available on the Unix TeX tape, and probably via your favourite `loadsa TeX goodies' FTP site. If you have a DWB license, you can get a copy of `tpic', which takes pic (ie grap output) and converts it to TeX macros; the use of a dvi driver which understands the tpic \specials is assumed. There was a paper at last years French TeX meeting about an implementation of pic in TeX - maybe someone reading this heard it? -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)