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If I'm doing one-off throwaway plots, there are better and easier tools than Gnuplot: Desmos, GeoGebra.

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Being Python and object oriented makes it easy to figure out how to do many things (e.g.

I use other Python libraries when they're a better fit. I think the fine details are controllable in more programmatic ways than Gnuplot. If I'm using Matplotlib, I'm almost always plotting things calculated in Python, so all my data and variables are right there ready to go. For most of my one-off explorations there are better tools too.

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Most of my plots are created in Python programs, Latex documents, or interactive web pages, where I use tools focused on that purpose and embed the code where it fits. It can do lots of things, but in my experience, it's been easier to get what I want in other tools. That’s for my stuff (mostly atomic-scale modelling and quantum chemistry in materials science), it might be different for other use cases. I really dislike Matplotlib, so rendering is done in something else, usually gnuplot. I also use it to prepare datasets from large numbers of calculations where the useful results need to be gathered from dozens/hundreds of files in a more or less complex file structure, often on different computers, with the occasional pass with some post-processing tools. Once the pipeline is set, Python is for scripts that need to be run more than about a dozen times, or need to be run on several datasets, or for things that need to be reproduced exactly (like stuff that goes into a paper). On the other hand, Matlab is terrible to write scripts, with its inconsistencies and its almost-Fortran-but-weirder syntax. This does not matter much in a script, but is a pain for interactive use.

Also, the general-purpose nature of Python gets in the way, whereas the Matlab-like syntax is very focused and much less cumbersome. I hate having to set up the whole machinery when doing this in Python. That’s usually playing with a dataset, test some analysis techniques, quick regressions, solving linear equations systems, this sort of things. I use Excel when I'm going to make a document in Word or Powerpoint, but when I make serious maths exams, I use texmacs, and thus I need a way to make vector images.I use Matlab-likes (actually Scilab rather than Octave) for one offs and interactive use.

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Libreoffice is a free alternative to Excel, and you CAN export as a vector image in that, so I use that instead. I've tried various things which people have suggested, but to no avail. I'd appreciate confirmation that all the graphs I've linked above can actually be drawn in Veusz or not.Įdit: BTW, I know the usual reaction to graphs is, 'oh, do it in Excel!', but as of writing this, you can't export Excel graphs as a vector image to my knowledge. Any help would be much appreciated! Every time I add a break, it adds the break halfway along the y-axis :( My question is: how do I create a break in the y-axis using veusz, in such a way that the graph looks like the third graph in the link above? I'm slowly creating all the graphs here: I'm a teacher and I'm learning to use Veusz to create high school maths statistical graphs.

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