
        G N U P L O T +
        Version 0.4.1
        01/05/2006

        Copyright (C) 2006
        Dominic Ford


        This is GnuPlot+ version 0.4.1, a plotting package based
        upon the GnuPlot API, but with superior plotting quality
        provided courtesy of PyX.

        This is an beta-testing version, and presently only
        supports a minimal subset of the GnuPlot API.

        Don't type 'help' to access the on-line reference manual.

        Send comments, bug reports, feature requests and coffee
        supplies to:
            <dcf21@mrao.cam.ac.uk>

Welcome to GnuPlot+! This program is a rewrite of the classic gnuplot plotting
package, intended to provide publication-quality plots using an interface which
is essentially the same as that used by the original, except for various
extensions where it was not felt to be powerful enough. The motivation behind
its creation was that the author found the output of gnuplot to be rather
unattractive and inflexible in appearance, yet at the same time, there seemed
to be an absence of any other quick and simple commandline plotting packages.
Whilst some packages such as pgplot did offer very attractive output, they
required a program to be written each time a plot was to be produced, and this
approach seemed to lack something of the ease of use of gnuplot.

And so, the world seemed to be lacking something: it was lacking a commandline
plotting package which could produce high-quality output. This program is an
attempt to fill that gap, and so make the world a better place. It aims to
provide a tool which is easy to invoke interactively, to visually inspect data,
and equally easy to embed within a scripting environment.

Full documentation can be found in doc/gnuplot+.tex

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Dominic Ford
