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Published inFeb 2012
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ISBN-139781849517249
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Lee Phillips
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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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Including a plot in a web page


Gnuplot can produce graphs in several formats that can be included in web pages. The chief purpose of this recipe is to give complete examples of current best practices for assembling web pages with graphics. Following is a screenshot from the display area of a web browser:

The text and figure are the same as in the previous recipe, Adding a plot to a paper using LaTeX.

How to do it…

The following sections will help you in including a plot in a web page as shown in the previous figure:

The gnuplot script

We'll modify our previous gnuplot script a little to produce an SVG file rather than a PDF file:

set term svg font "Arial,12"
set out 'r6fig.svg'
unset key
plot [0:.5] sin(1/x) lw 2

The HTML source

Following is a minimal HTML5 web page, showing the first method for including an SVG image:

<!DOCTYPE HTML> 
<html>
  <head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
  <title>Gnuplot on the Web</title><...
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Published in: Feb 2012Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849517249

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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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