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Re: ... an xy plotter for tex

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From: hank
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:05
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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
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