... as:1.1
As in gnuplot, all textual labels in PyXPlot should be enclosed in either single or double quotes. If one were to want to render a string containing apostrophes, it would be necessary to enclose the string in double quotes, to prevent confusion between the apostrophe in the LATEX, and the closing quote at the end of the line. However, to allow for those wanting to render LATEX strings containing both single and double quote characters - for example, ``J $ \backslash$"org's Data'' - PyXPlot recognises the backslash character to be an escape character when followed by either ' or " in a LATEX string. This is the only case in which PyXPlot considers $ \backslash$ an escape character. Consequently, in the example above, the `` $ \backslash$"'' would need to be double escaped: ``J $ \backslash\backslash$"org's Data''. 
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... CLASS="MATH">$ 2\epsilon$1.2
Download from:
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... commas2.1
If the filename of a datafile ends with a .gz suffix, it is assuming to be gzipped plaintext, and is decoded accordingly. 
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... used2.2
Note that when a plot command contains both using/every modifiers, and the with modifier, the latter must come last. 
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...[minimum:maximum].2.3
An alternative valid syntax is to replace the colon with the word `to': [minimum to maximum]. 
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...-axis.2.4
As will be discussed in section 3.3.1, if further ranges are specified, they apply to the $ x2$-axis, then the $ y2$-axis, and so forth. 
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... command.2.5
The select keyword, to be introduced in section 3.3 can also be used. 
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... lines2.6
Another way of producing best-fit lines is a to use a cubic spline; more details in given in section 3.8 
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... command.2.7
It should be noted that back-quotes can only be used outside quotes. For example, set xlabel '`ls`' will not work. The best way to do this would be: set xlabel `echo "'" ; ls ; echo "'"`. 
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... ).2.8
An effect similar to that of gnuplot's set notics command can be obtained with the magic nolabelstics axis label, described in section 3.3.1. The implementation of the set tics command is a high priority in version 0.6.x. 
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... highlighting3.1
This will only function on terminals which support colour output. 
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... red.3.2
The author apologies to those members of the population who are red/green colourblind, but draws their attention to the following sentence. 
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... paper3.3
Of less practical significance, it has been in use since the time of the Pythagoreans, and is seen repeatedly in the architecture of the Parthenon. 
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... plots.3.4
The author is aware of a bug, that this terminal can occasionally go blank when a new plot is generated. This is a known bug in ghostview, and can be worked around by selecting File $ \to$ Reload within the ghostview window. 
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... colours.3.5
This terminal setting is useful for producing plots to embed in talk slideshows, which often contain bright text on a dark background. It only works when producing bitmapped output, though a similar effect can be achieved in postscript using the set textcolour and set axescolour commands (see section 3.4.3). 
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... pointtypes3.6
The pointtype modifier was introduced in section 2.5. 
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...:3.7
The syntax [-2:2] can also be written [-2 to 2]. 
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... files.3.8
Note that pyxplot_watch *.script and pyxplot_watch $ \backslash$*.script will behave differently in most UNIX shells. In the first case, the wildcard is expanded by your shell, and a list of files passed to pyxplot_watch. Any files matching the wildcard, created after running pyxplot_watch, will not be picked up. In the latter case, the wildcard is expanded by pyxplot_watch itself, which will pick up any newly created files. 
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... Manual.4.1
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The use of this is called Gauss' Method. Higher order terms in the expansion represent any non-Gaussianity in the probability distribution, which we neglect. See MacKay, D.J.C., Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, CUP (2003). 
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