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- From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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- Subject: Re: ... an xy plotter for tex
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.090549.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:05:49 GMT
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- In article <27JUL199217330377@jetson.uh.edu>, schieber@jetson.uh.edu
- (Schieber, Jay D.) writes:
- > I have installed GNUplot and emTeX on my PC and am trying to integrate
- > them, but have been having problems with TeX's "memory capacity
- > exceeded" (as expected). I have found some comments floating about
- > that say eepic macros work, and you suggest epsf, which I assume
- > is some encapsulated postscript converter. My question is, where
- > can I obtain a macro which will allow me to import complex plots
- > from GNUplot into emTeX without maxing out TeX?
-
- There's something wrong here... If you are using the postscript terminal, then
- emtex will not need any memory, since you will be using something like
- dvips to print the file (using \special in the TeX file).
-
- You need to indicate the output device. If eps is acceptable, use dvips
- from Rokicki as your driver. If final print is on a HP, you could use
- GhostScript to get there:
- LaTeX -> dvips -> ghostscript -> HPLJ.
-
- You may be able to save some memory with the eepic terminal--it uses
- tpic specials (but I'm not at all certain on the memory thing here). Can
- you use the emtex terminal? This may save some memory since the emtex
- terminal uses emtex \special's (but then you must be using one of the
- dvi drivers from the emtex package).
-
- Finally, if you have a 386, you can use tex386 beta 8 from the emtex
- distribution. In my limited tests, tex386 (a bigtex) is as fast as
- tex186 or texp (texp is OS/2). If you are very patient, the bigtex btex186
- (or btexp for OS/2 1.x) will work (Give btex186 an extra meg of extended mem).
-
- --darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
-