Chapter 10. Terminals and output formats
This chapter covers
- Understanding terminals
- Font selection and enhanced text mode
- Standard graphics file formats
- Mathematical formulas with gnuplot and LaTeX
- Interactive terminals
Gnuplot can generate graphs in all common graphics formats (and some uncommon ones, too). The components within gnuplot that are ultimately responsible for creating all graphical output are called terminals. Different output formats require different terminals.
Because terminals are the final step in the creation of a graph, the ultimate appearance of a graph depends directly on the capabilities of the terminal used to generate it. Some of gnuplot’s terminals produce output of very high quality and are among gnuplot’s ...
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