Re: [boost] Producing graphs for documentation

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-10 06:00:18

>-----Original Message-----
>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Kevin Lynch
>Sent: 09 January 2007 16:27
>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>Subject: Re: [boost] Producing graphs for documentation
>
>Paul A Bristow wrote:
>>>Kevin Lynch said:     (by the date of Mon, 08 Jan 2007 
>13:53:04 -0500)
>> 
>>>>You could look into gnuplot. 
>> 
>> Looks promising, but tiresome that it doesn't output in .png 
>and so a separate step is needed, which makes full automation
>> difficult.
>
>Oh, but it does!  :-)
>
>set terminal png <options>

Great! - though the FAQ I read didn't say this - it suggests using Imagemagick.

>> I like the potential to write the gnuplot script from the 
>C++ program (as well as csv data file) and run gnuplot as a Windows
>> Post-build step?
>> 
>
>I'm a linux guy ... I wouldn't know how to help you in Windows.
>
>> But it isn't so nice that I intend to start to re-do all the 
>Math Toolkit graphs.
>> 
>
>I hear you :-)  When I read your first email in this thread I 
>thought to 
>myself, "Brave man ... I'd probably just keep doing what I was 
>doing to avoid the pain of migrating" :-)

Well I have other plotting to do, so I might explore this.

Many thanks.

Paul

PS Comments on the Math Toolkit code and docs will be most welcome in the pre-review period.  The text is now so familiar that
proof-reading has become difficult for John and I.

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