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From: amr@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Anthony M. Richardson)
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Subject: Re: AmigaPlot by James White
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Date: 3 Aug 90 13:29:53 GMT
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From article <41@ncuug.UUCP>, by garyw@ncuug.UUCP (Gary Whicker):
> In article <8702@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
>>Does anyone else have a favorite plotting program for Data Sets?
>>
>> Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science     (716) 275-3055
>  This has been a problem for awhile now. I finally ended up writing my own
> plotting program that uses the PLPLOT library. I am almost finished with a
> nice front end that will let you do data entry from formula or keyboard.
> It will also let you plot multiple curves on the same graph. I wrote it
> in a combination of C and CanDO. (CanDo can really save time for creating
> nice graphical interfaces.) I am using PLPLOT 2.0 which is a really nice
> library that allows you to output to many different devices, including the
> pref. printer. I'm still trying to get a script language worked out for
> it. 
> 

I wrote a plotting program based on PLPLOT also. It's called ListPlot.
It doesn't use a scripting language, but uses command line options
instead. (I usually use a script to call ListPlot because of the
large number of options).  Here's the output from "ListPlot help":

Usage: cat data | ListPlot [Options]
Function: Yet another plotting filter. For help, enter "ListPlot help".
	For more verbose help, enter "ListPlot Verbose=on help".
Options:
	AngularUnit=[degrees|radians] default: degrees
	AnnotationScale=[dbl] default: 0.50
	AspectRatio=[dbl|Automatic] default: 0.61803399
	Boxed=[boolean|*] default: yes
	Domain=[interval|All|Automatic] default: All
	Gridding=[boolean] default: no
	Help=[All|all|*] default: All
	LabelScale=[dbl] default: 0.85
	LineColor=[set] default: {Black,Red,Green,Blue,Yellow}
	LineStyle=[set] default: {MS,MMSS,MMSmmS,mmS,mmSmmSMMS}
	Orientation=[portrait|landscape] default: landscape
	Origin=[interval|Automatic|Median] default: Automatic
	PlotColor=[boolean] default: no
	PlotJoined=[boolean] default: yes
	PlotPoints=[boolean] default: false
	PointScale=[dbl] default: 1.0
	PointSymbol=[Automatic|set] default: Automatic
	PlotTitle=[*] default: 
	PlotDevice=[xterm|tektronix|dg300|hp7470|hp7580|impress|tekfile|laserjetii|postscript|xfig] default: xterm
	PlotType=[linlin|loglin|linlog|loglog|polar] default: linlin
	PolarVariable=[angle|radius] default: angle
	Range=[interval|All|Automatic] default: All
	SubPages=[interval] default: 1.0,1.0
	SupplyAbscissa=[boolean] default: no
	TitleScale=[dbl] default: 1.0
	UseInputFile=[*] default: 
	UseOutputFile=[*] default: 
	Verbose=[boolean] default: off
	ViewPort=[rect] default: {0.1,0.1,0.9,0.9}
	XLabel=[*] default: 
	YLabel=[*] default: 
	XTick=[Automatic|interval] default: Automatic
	YTick=[Automatic|interval] default: Automatic

(Actually, this is the output from the UNIX version of ListPlot/PLPLOT.
The PlotDevice options for the Amiga version are something like
(from memory) amiga|preferences|iff|postscript|aegisdraw|tektronix|plt).

As you can see, it supports several different output formats (PlotDevice)
and plot types (PlotType).  It's setting on xanth in incoming and
I've been waiting for it to appear in comp.amiga.binaries for a couple
of months.

I can preview on a window on the Amiga, get user sizable hardcopy on
any preferences supported graphics printer, and get postscript or
IFF output for inclusion in AmigaTex documents.

(Sorry to be blowing my own horn here. I know there are several good
plotting programs out there now (and a few in the works), but
ListPlot is my personal favorite. Probably because I wrote it to
do what I want it to do :-))

Regards,
Tony Richardson