Re: octave's graphics interface / linux operating system

> Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> > Dear listmembers,
> > I am using gnuplot output very regularly within documents I produce with
> > latex. In order to achieve a really good quality I found it very convenient
> > to produce postscript output and convert this to pdf afterwards.
> > Moreover, the attributes of the text, additional labels / arrows / whatsoever
> > can be integrated in the graph.
> >
> > Now, through the recent modifications in octave, the direct access to gnuplot
> > through octave became more difficult - don't take me wrong I do not mind.
> > In order to further process the graphs I use additional code to output data
> > into files, prepare gnuplot configuration files and call gnuplot finally with
> > a system command out of octave. This is managable but circumstancial.
> >
> > My question is now twofold:
> > 1.) is it possible to force octave to write all data into files rather than
> > piping them into gnuplot (or does this happen anyway?)?
>
> Not really.
>