On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:38:42PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> ...  If I
> can figure out how to make minor tick gridlines do what I want,
> I will be 99% satisfied.  I prefer dense minor gridlines, plotted
> in faint bluegreen ( rgb #C0FFEE ) like the graph paper of my youth. 

I figured out how to do that - the magic tricks are "set style line",
"set m*tics", and "set grid".  Here is an example that prints some
dense graph paper beneath the plots:

   set style line 8 lt 1 lw 1   lc rgb "#C0FFEE"
   set style line 9 lt 1 lw 0.5 lc rgb "#C0FFEE"
   set mxtics 10
   set mytics 10
   set grid xtics ytics mxtics mytics ls 8 , ls 9

This looks great on an HP2605dtn color laser printer.  For your 
amusement, the entire gnuplot script I use ( for plotting the
DC characteristics of a typical TSMC 0.13um diode connected PFET
and an NFET ) is at http://www.kl-ic.com/gnuplot_example .


> I would prefer to install from an RPM, but I couldn't find any and
> I do not know an easy way to make one.  Separate subject, is there
> a magical tool that will take a standard "automake" package ( using
> the mantra "./configure, make, make install" that we all know and
> love ) and auto-magically produce an RPM?

Some helpful people suggested "checkinstall", and that works fine,
so I built a gnuplot rpm for SL5:
            
  http://www.kl-ic.com/gnuplot-4.2.2-1.sl5.i386.rpm

This version will not make PDFs, as my system does not have libpdf
and I did not want to build in the dependency.  I don't know how 
much attention checkinstall pays to dependencies, so I don't know
how portable this rpm is.  But it might be useful as a "contrib"
for SL5, if somebody wants to add it to the archive.

Keith

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