[lug] Getting frustrated with gnuplot

Matt Thompson thompsma at jilau1.colorado.edu
Thu Oct 12 09:12:24 MDT 2006


The heavens stretched forth and Daniel Webb decreed the following on or 
about 10/11/2006 08:58 PM:
> It stinks for publishing 3D data in black and white (like journals).  No 3D
> bar plots.  No ability to print the contour level on the contours (like a topo
> map).  How stupid is that to have to look over at a legend to figure out which
> of the 8 slightly different kinds of dotted lines correspond to which level?

A dumb question, but did you try the label_contours.awk script that 
Gnuplot has on it's script page:

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/scripts/index.html#tricks-here

It's not the greatest, but it does sort of label the contours.  Their 
example is a wee bit busy though (the textcolor=-1 can be...psychedelic).

Matt
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