Re: suggestions for sheet-graph

[RTBumby <bumby math rutgers edu>]

On 03/19/2011 01:35 PM, Andreas Guelzow wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 10:35 +0100, Frederic Parrenin wrote:
> > I feel that sheet-graphs are limited right now and I have a few
> > suggestions for improving them:
> > - define a page format
> > - allow multiple graphs on one page
> > - allow resizing of the graphs
> > - allow sheet objects (line, rectangle, etc.)
> >
> >
> > What do you think?
> If you want all these features why don't you just leave the graph on an
> empty regular sheet?
>
> (Of course I don't understand the use for these graph-only sheets
> anyways if you can just have a sheet with only a graph.)
>
> Andreas
>
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I think that gnumeric is wonderful, but I don't think that it needs to 
do everything.  I often use it to provide independent lists of the data 
points for graphs that will be combined in a general-purpose graphing 
program -- I use gnuplot.

Items like "page format", "multiple graphs on one page" and "resizing of 
the graphs" are features of a page description tool.  I use TeX to 
typest the descriptions and import the graphs.  I have also used 
gnumeric to format the TeX instructions to build a table.

The quoted suggestion is that you use new sheets in gnumeric to organize 
your graphs, but modern desktop environments allow easy cooperation 
between all programs on your computer (or maybe even in the cloud) so 
getting the data to a tool that you use comfortably may be better than 
trying to teach another program to emulate that tool.

--RTBumby