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Shiwayari
Shiwayari

Reputation: 345

How to output multiple pages in gnuplot cairolatex terminal?

As written in the title, I am trying to create a multipage pdf with gnuplots cairolatex terminal. I am using gnuplot 5.4 in cygwin.

Single page works fine, i.e.

./gnuplot-script
pdflatex plot.tex

However when I plot multiple pages in the gnuplot-script, the output .tex file seems to contain errors .. E.g. the gnuplot-script

set terminal cairolatex standalone
set output "plot.tex"
plot x
plot x**2

outputs a plot.tex that contains two \documentclass{minimal} and pdflatex then complains with

! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
...
l.181 \documentclass
                    {minimal}

I can workaround this by putting each plot into a new file, but it seems a bit strange that simple multipage output is bugged in this terminal?

Am I missing some special command to start a new page in the cairolatex terminal or something? I don't see anything in the documentation for this ..

Upvotes: 0

Views: 206

Answers (1)

Ethan
Ethan

Reputation: 15118

If you really need to create a TeX-based multipage pdf file directly from gnuplot, I suggest to use the tikz terminal rather than cairolatex.

set terminal tikz standalone
set output "plot.tex"
plot x
plot x**2
unset output
!pdflatex plot

Upvotes: 1

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