## Ploticus Handbook - Contents

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GENERAL INFO

Welcome - introduction
FAQ
What's new
Plot data file formats
Scaling and various types of plottable units
Notes on rendering: web CGI paper reports posters slides interactive display
Gallery of examples

PROGRAMS - command line utilities

The pl program
The pltab program

PREFABS - produce graphs quickly from the command line without coding scripts

Intro to prefabs
chron - display chronological data
dist - frequency distribution histograms
lines - line plots
pie - pie graphs
scat - scatterplots with correlations
stack - stacked bar graphs
vbars - bar graphs

SCRIPTS - for maximum flexibility and customization.

Introduction to scripts
Using procs and attributes; #proc, #procdef, #saveas, #clone
Syntax and variables
Flow of control directives such as #set and #if
Reserved variables
Functions
Script examples: Index PNG thumbnails GIF thumbnails
PLOTTING PROCS
Proc Annotate - add annotation
Proc Areadef - define a plotting area
Automatic scaling
Proc Axis (Xaxis/Yaxis) - render an axis
Proc Bars - bar graphs, histograms, error bars
Proc Curvefit - generate a curve from data points
Proc Drawcommands - draw using command set
Proc Getdata - get or specify plot data
Proc Legend - render a legend
Proc Line - draw arbitrary lines
Proc Lineplot - produce a line plot
Proc Page - set page-wide attributes/ break page
Proc Pie - produce a pie graph
Proc Rangebar - produce a rangebar / boxplot
Proc Rangesweep - produce a range sweep
Proc Scatterplot - produce a scatterplot

UTILITY PROCS
Proc Bevelrect - draw a bevelled rectangle
Proc Breakaxis - break an axis for display of extreme values
Proc Catslide - adjust placement of categories
Proc Datesettings - control details of date handling
Proc Defineunits - explicitly define scaling units
Proc Endproc - mark the end of a proc's attributes
Proc Import - import an external PNG image file
Proc Legendentry - define a legend entry explicitly
Proc Originaldata - reference original data set
Proc Print - show outliers, contents of variables, etc.
Proc Processdata - process data set in various ways
Proc Tabulate - perform tabulations & frequency distributions
Proc Trailer - specify data at end of control file

ATTRIBUTES

Basic attribute types
Colors
Conditional expressions
Linedetails
Symboldetails
Textdetails
Fonts
Dates
Times

APPENDIX

Ploticus configuration files
Notes for non-unix environments
Special characters
Program limitations
Copyright and permissions
Home page (www.sgpr.net)
Downloading the software
User comments and feedback
Where to ask questions & report problems

data display engine
Copyright Steve Grubb

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