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- From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
- Subject: Ans. to R & N symbols and an xy plotter for tex
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.005257.3794@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Keywords: Real, Natural, gnuplot
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:52:57 GMT
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- For the R & N symbols the easiest solution is to notice that
- there is a font that contains these symbols. I will have to
- look through my showfont pages to find it though, but it's there.
- Some people prefer to kern them together.
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- For an xy plotter for TeX the gnuplot program combined with the
- epsf macros work well for me. gnuplot automatically configures
- to most standard terminal types. Once you are done tweeking the
- plot you use 'set output' to choose a filename.eps and use the
- 'set term' command to select encapsulated postscript. Then 'replot'
- to create an encapsulated postscript file. The epsf macro can
- scale the size of the plot and include it easily into your document.
- gnuplot is freely available for most standard machines and c source
- is also provided. Furthermore excellent documentation comes with the
- package. I usually use epsf.sty with LaTeX but I think I remember seeing
- a separate macro for use with TeX. The epsf macro is also freely
- available (My thanks to the gnuplot and epsf authors). I think
- the epsf macros were part of the dvips package. The MSDOS version
- of gnuplot can be obtained from sites that mirror simtel. I'm sure
- someone will correct me if I have given any incorrect information.
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- JAF
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