<OT> Dumb OpenOffice calc/chart question of thee week

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Am Montag, 17. Juni 2002 10:15 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:

> I have looked everywhere and tried everything, but I have not seen how to
> make a chart in OO Calc that contains two lines from two colums of data
> that share the same X axis scale. The problem is that each column does not
> have data for the same points along the X axis. If the X axis was distance,
> one column would have data every meter and another every 20 meters. I want
> each column as a separate line, sharing the same X axis. Each column of
> data does have a column that defines it's X axis. I can use only one of
> these to define the X axis.
>
> This seems like a very obvious thing that everyone would want. I could not
> picture that the charting tool would not allow this. Anyone here an OO
> chart expert?

I agree, this should be a very common task. I remember having tried to solve a 
similar problem some months ago - plotting together two animal growth curves 
measured at different times for each animal - with Excel, and I gave up in 
the end. Now looking at OO, I see that it's charting capabilities are not far 
beyond those of Excel. Perhaps we have to search for a software which is 
specialized in the task of graphing. Have you ever tried gnuplot? 
Unfortunately, I don't know much about it.
Klaus