LATEX GNUPLOT PDF

TL DR: Can't figure out whether to use Gnuplot+LaTeX terminal or gnuplottex or use PDFPlots for making a bunch of scatter-plots with a tabular legend. Discussions on chemistry software, data, conferences, jobs, quantum chemistry.

So I'm not sure whether I should use PGFPlots (which is a package) or call Gnuplot from LaTeX (using gnuplottex package) or use a Gnuplot terminal. One thing I vaguely understood is that running Gnuplot -> tikz+eps file -> (compile somehow) -> PDF?. So why do I need TeX functionality for plotting? One simple reason is that Gnuplot doesn't support 2 column legends, which I require.So I was looking at different latex terminals for Gnuplot.I had a look at epslatex, tikz etc. In my LaTeX document I use the hyperref package to set things like pdfsubject etc.

LATEX GNUPLOT PDF

From the LaTeX I generate postscript (dvips -q -P pdf -t a4) and convert it to pdf (ps2pdf14). We can safely create the rule presented in Code 4.5. The gnuplot command is very straightforward and doesn’t require a complicated setup. Now it’s time for us to create a gnuplot rule. I generate eps files (using term post enh eps) and include them into my LaTeX files. The latex rule acts just like pdflatex, with the very same parameters both dvips and ps2pdf rules have no parameters. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. I am using Gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel rc4 CVS-23Jan2007. Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. I also haven't used plain LaTeX in a while. gnuplot - A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data. I have used TikZ (a year or two back, very basic stuff) and never used PGFPlots. I've also been using Gnuplot for a while and am reasonably comfortable with it. The input is ready in a gnuplot-readable file (with whitespaces and newlines as appropriate).

I need to make scatter plots and join the points by lines where suitable.

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