On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:19:01 +0100
Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > I tried many variations of
> >
> > ticks sh { awk ... }
> >
> > without any luck.
>
> Use `sh' to produce the whole `ticks' line in a temporary file and
> then `copy' to read it in?
Ah, thanks, Ralph!
At first I tried
ticks at copy "t"
which didn't work, but if I put "ticks at " at the front of the t file,
a simple
copy "t"
where the ticks line belongs does the tick, as it were.
As an experiment, I then replaced that with
sh { cat "t" }
and saw my file splatted up at the top of the output, above the graph.
Now I finally understand something that, to me at least, isn't terribly
obvious from the documentation: the "sh" commands are executed first,
before graphing starts, not at the point they appear in the document.
Regards,
--jkl
