gnu plot tricks

in case anyone else needs to, the way to store a variable and use that instead of directly using equations is;

plot f(x) = cos(x/180.0*3.141592), f(x)**2 * (3.0 - (2.0 * f(x)) ), f(x)**2

where "f(x)" is the name of the 'variable'

4 digit padding in mel (using python)

string $padframe = python( "'%04d' % " + $newFnum );

symbol table utility

    nm -A -C dof.so | grep globalThreadCount

This is useful to track the source of an error message related to a mangled sym table name,
eg.
    D02001 {WARNING} TgPathDLOpen: Bad DSO found: dof.so (undefined symbol: _ZN3Imf17globalThreadCountEv)


    man nm
   
will give the manual page


    ldd mydso.so

will list the dependencies a dso has. Which is also useful