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thank you.
really looks worth for me to take a closer look at.

the advantage of gnuplot from my perspective is: once you learn how to use it, you can use it for a lot of applications, for example websites and other stuff, and not only latex documents.

but for quick graphs in latex, pgfplot looks ...

i solved my problem by myself:

at the end of the gnuplot script, you must "release" the output file by stipulating "set output". this it it. now the compilation works.

back to your suggestion, ghost:
i uploaded a graph out of latex (as gif snapshot) and accompanying data.
I'm curious to see what ...

thank you for the recommendation localghost, I scrolled through the documentation but didn't find any graphs relying on a dataset, for example stock price time series.
Can data from an external text file be included in a pgfplots graph?

Otherwise, I'm still waiting for suggestions concerning my ...

Dear all,
I have installed gnuplot 4.4rc1 and made a simple plot to the epslatex terminal. This is my plot file: (inspired by an example in the book GNUPLOT in Action)

set loadpath "C:/Program Files (x86)/gnuplot/bin/share/PostScript/"
set label 1 " '$\phi(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi}} e^{-\frac{1 ...