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Eepic
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The <B>eepic</B> terminal driver supports the extended LaTeX picture environment.
It is an alternative to the <B>latex</B> driver.
<P>
The output of this terminal is intended for use with the <TT>"</TT>eepic.sty<TT>"</TT> macro
package for LaTeX. To use it, you need <TT>"</TT>eepic.sty<TT>"</TT>, <TT>"</TT>epic.sty<TT>"</TT> and a
printer driver that supports the <TT>"</TT>tpic<TT>"</TT> 2#2specials. If your printer driver
doesn't support those 2#2specials, <TT>"</TT>eepicemu.sty<TT>"</TT> will enable you to use some
of them.
dvips and dvipdfm do support the <TT>"</TT>tpic<TT>"</TT> 2#2specials.
<P>
Syntax:
<BR>
<PRE>
set terminal eepic {color, dashed, rotate, small, tiny, default, <fontsize>}
</PRE>
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<P>
Options:
You can give options in any order you wish.
'color' causes gnuplot to produce 2#2color{...} commands so that the graphs are
colored. Using this option, you must include 2#2usepackage{color} in the preambel
of your latex document.
'dashed' will allow dashed line types; without this option, only solid lines
with varying thickness will be used.
'dashed' and 'color' are mutually exclusive; if 'color' is specified, then 'dashed'
will be ignored.
'rotate' will enable true rotated text (by 90 degrees). Otherwise, rotated text
will be typeset with letters stacked above each other. If you use this option
you must include 2#2usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble.
'small' will use 2#2scriptsize symbols as point markers (Probably does not work
with TeX, only LaTeX2e). Default is to use the default math size.
'tiny' uses 2#2scriptscriptstyle symbols.
'default' resets all options to their defaults = no color, no dashed lines,
pseudo-rotated (stacked) text, large point symbols.
4#4fontsize5#5 is a number which specifies the font size inside the picture
environment; the unit is pt (points), i.e., 10 pt equals approx. 3.5 mm.
If fontsize is not specified, then all text inside the picture will be set
in 2#2footnotesize.
<P>
Notes:
Remember to escape the # character (or other chars meaningful to (La-)TeX)
by 2#22#2 (2 backslashes).
It seems that dashed lines become solid lines when the vertices of a plot
are too close. (I do not know if that is a general problem with the tpic specials,
or if it is caused by a bug in eepic.sty or dvips/dvipdfm.)
The default size of an eepic plot is 5x3 inches, which can be scaled
by 'set size a,b'.
Points, among other things, are drawn using the LaTeX commands <TT>"</TT>2#2Diamond<TT>"</TT>,
<TT>"</TT>2#2Box<TT>"</TT>, etc. These commands no longer belong to the LaTeX2e core; they are
included in the latexsym package, which is part of the base distribution and
thus part of any LaTeX implementation. Please do not forget to use this package.
Instead of latexsym, you can also include the amssymb package.
All drivers for LaTeX offer a special way of controlling text positioning:
If any text string begins with '{', you also need to include a '}' at the
end of the text, and the whole text will be centered both horizontally and
vertically. If the text string begins with '[', you need to follow this with
a position specification (up to two out of t,b,l,r), ']{', the text itself,
and finally '}'. The text itself may be anything LaTeX can typeset as an
LR-box. '2#2rule{}{}'s may help for best positioning.
<P>
Examples:
set term eepic
<BR>
<PRE>
output graphs as eepic macros inside a picture environment;
\input the resulting file in your LaTeX document.
</PRE>
<BR>
set term eepic color tiny rotate 8
<BR>
<PRE>
eepic macros with \color macros, \scripscriptsize point markers,
true rotated text, and all text set with 8pt.
</PRE>
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<P>
About label positioning:
Use gnuplot defaults (mostly sensible, but sometimes not really best):
<BR>
<PRE>
set title '\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $'
</PRE>
<BR>
Force centering both horizontally and vertically:
<BR>
<PRE>
set label '{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $}' at 0,0
</PRE>
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Specify own positioning (top here):
<BR>
<PRE>
set xlabel '[t]{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $}'
</PRE>
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The other label - account for long ticlabels:
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<PRE>
set ylabel '[r]{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $\rule{7mm}{0pt}}'
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