>
> To subscribers of the xforms list from "Dr. Dikoma C. Shungu" <shungu@ultranmr.cpmc.columbia.edu> :
>
> |> To subscribers of the xforms list from Ivan Powis
> |> <pczip@chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk> :
> |>
> |>[snip]
> |> My own objection to tacking on one's own ps output driver (from one of
> |> sources mentioned along this thread) is that the application then has
> |> to duplicate the programming required to generate the xyplot (scaling,
> |> annotation, plotting data, interpolating lines) and the results may be
> |> far from WYSIWYG. It kind of takes away the convenience of using
> |> xyplot doesn't it?
>
> It is actually easier than you think. The device drivers, which have
> already been written for you, ensure proper scaling, plot orientation
> etc..., based upon the selected device . You therefore write your
> drawing/plotting routine *once*, and only pass it pointers to functions
> which handle the drawing for the device you selected. These pointer
> functions, which may look like those given blow...,
>
> [Huge snip !!!]
... still prefer the look of a simple fl_xyplot_dump() as proposed by TC !!
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