Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Overview
  • 1.2 System Requirements
  • 1.3 Installation
  • 1.4 Credits
  • 1.5 Legal Blurb
  
  
• 2. First Steps With PyXPlot
  • 2.1 Getting Started
  • 2.2 First Plots
  • 2.3 Plotting Datafiles
  • 2.4 Directing Where Output Goes
  • 2.5 Data Styles
  • 2.6 Setting Axis Ranges
  • 2.7 Function Fitting
  • 2.8 Interactive Help
  • 2.9 Differences Between PyXPlot and Gnuplot
  
  
• 3. Extensions of Gnuplot's Interface
  • 3.1 The Commandline Environment
  • 3.2 Formatting and Terminals
  • 3.3 Plotting
    • 3.3.1 Configuring Axes
    • 3.3.2 Keys and Legends
    • 3.3.3 The linestyle keyword
    • 3.3.4 Colour Plotting
    • 3.3.5 General Extensions Beyond Gnuplot
  • 3.4 Sundry Items (Arrows, Text Labels, and More)
    • 3.4.1 Arrows
    • 3.4.2 Text Labels
    • 3.4.3 Gridlines
  • 3.5 Multi-plotting
    • 3.5.1 Speed Issues
  • 3.6 Barcharts and Histograms
    • 3.6.1 Basic Operation
    • 3.6.2 Stacked Bar Charts
    • 3.6.3 Steps
  • 3.7 Function Splicing
  • 3.8 Datafile Interpolation: Spline Fitting
  • 3.9 Numerical Integration and Differentiation
  • 3.10 Script Watching: pyxplot_watch
  
  
• 4. Configuring PyXPlot
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 Configuration Files
  • 4.3 An Example Configuration File
  • 4.4 Configuration Options: settings section
  • 4.5 Configuration Options: terminal section
  • 4.6 Recognised Colour Names
  
  
• 5. Examples
  • 5.1 Example 1: Plotting Functions - A Simple First Plot
  • 5.2 Example 2: Stacking Many Plots Together - Multiplot
  • 5.3 Example 3: Plotting A Datafile - Using Multiple Axes
  • 5.4 Example 4: Something Completely Different
  • 5.5 Example 5: Multiplot - Linked Axes
  • 5.6 Example 6: Bar Charts and Steps
  • 5.7 Example 7: Bar Charts - Box Widths
  • 5.8 Example 8: Fitting Functions to Data
  • 5.9 Example 9: Simple Examples of Function Splicing
  • 5.10 Example 10: Removal of Unwanted Axes
  • 5.11 Example 11: The Arrows Plot Style
  • 5.12 Output Produced by Examples
  
  
• 6. The fit Command: Mathematical Details
  • 6.1 Notation
  • 6.2 The Probability Density Function
  • 6.3 Estimating the Error in
  • 6.4 The Covariance Matrix
  • 6.5 The Correlation Matrix
  • 6.6 Finding
  
  
• 7. ChangeLog
• Index