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Book Description
Written in Cookbook style, the reader will be taught the features of gnuplot through
practical examples accompanied by rich illustrations and code. Every aspect has

been considered to ensure ease of understanding of even complex features. Whether

you are an old hand at gnuplot or new to it, this book is a convenient visual reference
that covers the full range of gnuplot's capabilities, including its latest features. Some
basic knowledge of plotting graphs is necessary.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

This book is a stroll down memory lane. It invokes things which I and probably some
of you rarely see nowadays, like an explicit mention of X11 windowing, or laTex. As
the preface says, gnuplot came out in 86, and the screen captures in the book reflect
that time. Its main merits are that it is free, and was so long before freeware became
popular as a concept, and that by now there is extensive ability to do many types of
graphing. My memories of gnuplot are inextricably meshed with DEC Vaxes running
VMS and greasy Versaplot hardcopy. The latter was the best cheapest alternative
before laserprinters came on the scene. So ok, I also hear a soundtrack of the 80s
when I think of gnuplot; Madonna, Billy Idol and others.The book starts off with simple
2 dimensional graphs, which you make by running gnuplot and within its shell script,
entering various commands. The commands are straightforward. Of course, the shell
scripting reflects gnuplots' antecedants in an era of character based terminals. But it
should also make you appreciate that just because you can now run some graphics
package in a snazzy GUI, that is not necessarily an improvement. The true bottleneck
is not in graphing something, either via a GUI or a script, but in deciding what to plot
and making adjustments to convey a message. Well, actually, the really true
bottleneck is the previous step - being able to somehow gather data.Interestingly, the
book reveals that it is only in gnuplot 4.4 that you can now use Unicode for the title
and labels of graphs. I would have thought that this would have been possible 10
years ago. Unicode is now the standard for encompassing all human fonts, and has
been so since at least 2001. The text mentions en passant that Postscript [which is a
proprietary product separate from gnuplot] still does not do Unicode directly. Wow.For
convenience, the book labels various properties as 'new' if these are from the latest
gnuplot. By default, other features might hark back decades.Integration with laTex is
explained. Both to make a graph that can be shown inside a latex file, and to make
gnuplot commands inside a laTex file. The latter is very nifty and powerful. You
should also be aware that laTex is still heavily used within the academic and scientific
community, so there may well be substantial demand for these new features.It is the
ability to do sophisticated 3 dimensional graphs that is a hallmark of gnuplot. The
germane section of the text explains concisely with a few examples. Equal to anything

that packages like Mathematica and Maple can produce. Though of course gnuplot
does not have the general purpose non-graphics abilities those do, like symbolic
algebra. Read more
The book give sufficient details about gnuplot to get you started. I bought the book so
I could incorporate gnuplot diagrams in latex files and also in java programs.