[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >My solution for this problem [of having to put "terminal" selection >gnuplot files in the same directory as gnuplot content files] is a >script that wraps the call to gnuplot, and adds the necessary >declaration for output. Usually I enter also a preamble with some >of the default values for my drawings.
I got tired of the problem too, after my previous message. My solution was to take advantage of the fact that I have root access to my workstation and a little leverage with the administrators of the other guys' workstations. I moved the ascii.gnuplot file and the eps.gnuplot file into $$Sysdir/scripts at the same time I put my expanded external_templates file into $$Sysdir. No more system crutch files in user data directories, and I'll just munge the system LyX support files again when they get updated. And, if the LyX External Material feature gets expanded to support *.pdf files when exporting through pdflatex, or *.png files for HTML export, I'll only have to add the new gnuplot crutch files to one directory. >Since I sometimes use long data files for graphics this is not always >handy [to put all data and all gnuplot commands but terminal selection >into the same file]. But it is necessary if you want to get LyX to enforce consistency between gnuplot files and plot results files (*.eps, *.txt, and maybe eventually *.png and *.pdf). LyX will only look at your gnuplot file. If it refers to some other file for the data and you change the data, LyX can't tell. If everything is in one file, anytime the file changes, LyX makes sure the plot results file changes too. >With the wrapper you don't need to use inset external. You can gnuplot to >the graphic supported formats. :-) My guess is that's not strictly true if you need *.eps sometimes, *.txt for ASCII export sometimes, and in a hoped-for future, *.pdf and *.png on occasion. Keeping the gnuplot file and the graphics result file-of-the-day in sync sounds to me like a headache. LyX External Material should take care of it for you, behind the scenes. -- M/S 258-5 |1024-bit PGP fingerprint:|[EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59| (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000| 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6|FAX: (650) 604-4377 Not an official NASA position. You can't even be certain who sent this!
