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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: graphs with TeX
Keywords: TeX
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Date: 10 Jun 88 21:34:35 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|  Do any on you TeX/LaTeX users know of any good software for
|creating graphs and figures? I'd like to be able to
|represent "X-Y" plots  as .tex files that I can read into a TeX
|document. I want the ability to label axes, insert titles, put in
|tic-marks, overlay grids, etc. I'd like the software to be as device
|independent as possible.
|
|  For example, I'd like to be able to create
|a plot by writing a simple program; its output would be
|TeX commands.
|
|  Any suggestions?

TeX is not terribly good at making pictures. There is PicTeX, a macro
package for doing some of this, but it easily eats up a lot of memory
even for small pictures.

I would suggest you do it with an another program (gnuplot, grap, plot,
whatever), generate PostScript or something like that and then include
it in your TeX file with a \special.

	Ken