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aed512
:
aed767
aed767
:
aed767
amiga
:
amiga
apollo
:
apollo
atari
:
atari_ST_(via_AES)
bitgraph
:
tek40
cgi
:
cgi
cgm
:
cgm
corel
:
corel
debug
:
debug
dospc
:
dospc
dumb
:
dumb
dxf
:
dxf
dxy800a
:
dxy800a
eepic
:
eepic
egalib
:
hercules
egamono
:
hercules
emf
:
emf
emtex
:
latex
emxvesa
:
emxvga
emxvga
:
emxvga
epson-180dpi
:
epson-180dpi
epson-60dpi
:
epson-180dpi
epson-lx800
:
epson-180dpi
excl
:
excl
ggi
:
ggi
gnugraph
:
Gnugraph(GNU_plotutils)
gpic
:
gpic_
gpic
:
gpic
gpr
:
gpr
graph-menu
:
windows
grass
:
grass
hcgi
:
cgi
hercules
:
hercules
hp2623a
:
hp2623a
hp2648
:
hp2648
hp500c
:
hp500c
hpdj
:
hpljii
hpgl
:
hpgl
hpljii
:
hpljii
hppj
:
hppj
imagen
:
imagen
iris4d
:
iris4d
kc-tek40xx
:
tek40
km-tek40xx
:
tek40
kyo
:
kyo
latex
:
latex
linux
:
linux_
linux
:
linux
macintosh
:
macintosh
mgr
:
mgr
mif
:
mif
mtos
:
mtos
nec-cp6
:
epson-180dpi
okidata
:
epson-180dpi
pbm
:
pbm
pcl5
:
hpgl
pdf
:
External_libraries
pdf
:
pdf
png
:
png
prescribe
:
kyo
printing
:
windows
pstricks
:
pstricks
qms
:
qms
regis
:
regis_
regis
:
regis
rgip
:
rgip
selanar
:
tek40
ssvgalib
:
hercules
starc
:
epson-180dpi
sun
:
sun
svg
:
svg
svga
:
svga
svgalib
:
External_libraries
svgalib
:
hercules
tandy-60dpi
:
epson-180dpi
tek40
:
tek40
tek410x
:
tek410x_
tek410x
:
tek410x
texdraw
:
texdraw
text-menu
:
windows
tgif
:
tgif_
tgif
:
tgif
tkcanvas
:
tkcanvas
tpic
:
tpic
uniplex
:
rgip
unixpc
:
unixpc
unixplot
:
unixplot
vdi
:
atari_ST_(via_VDI)
vgagl
:
vgagl
vgal
:
emxvga
vgalib
:
hercules
vgamono
:
hercules
vttek
:
tek40
VWS
:
VWS
vx384
:
vx384
wgnuplot.ini
:
windows
windows
:
windows
xlib
:
xlib_
xlib
:
xlib
Table of Contents
Master Menu
1 gnuplot
1.1 Copyright
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Seeking-assistance
1.4 New features introduced in version 4.2
1.4.1 New plot styles
1.4.1.1 Histogram
1.4.1.2 Label plots
1.4.1.3 Image data
1.4.1.4 Filled curves
1.4.1.5 Vectors
1.4.2 Input from binary data files
1.4.3 New plot elements
1.4.3.1 RGB colors
1.4.3.2 Arbitrary rectangles
1.4.4 String handling
1.4.4.1 String and text data read from datafiles
1.4.4.2 User-defined string variables, operators, and functions
1.4.5 Macros
1.4.6 Auto-layout of multiple plots on a page
1.4.7 Internal variables
1.4.8 New or revised terminal drivers
1.4.8.1 `wxt`
1.4.8.2 `emf`
1.4.8.3 `gif`, `jpeg`, `png`
1.4.8.4
postscript
1.4.8.5 `ai`
1.4.8.6 `epslatex`, `pslatex`, `pstex`
1.4.8.7 `windows`
1.4.9 Canvas size
1.5 Backwards compatibility
1.6 Features introduced in version 4.0
1.6.1 Mouse and hotkey support in interactive terminals
1.6.2 New terminals
1.6.3 New plot style
pm3d
1.6.4 Filled boxes
1.6.5 New plot option smooth frequency
1.6.6 Improved text options
1.6.7 More text encodings
1.6.8 Arrows
1.6.9 Data file format
1.6.10 New commands
1.6.11 Other changes and additions
1.6.12 Accompanying documentation
1.7 Batch/Interactive Operation
1.8 Command-line-editing
1.9 Comments
1.10 Coordinates
1.11 Datastrings
1.12 Environment
1.13 Expressions
1.13.1 Functions
1.13.1.1 abs
1.13.1.2 acos
1.13.1.3 acosh
1.13.1.4 arg
1.13.1.5 asin
1.13.1.6 asinh
1.13.1.7 atan
1.13.1.8 atan2
1.13.1.9 atanh
1.13.1.10 besj0
1.13.1.11 besj1
1.13.1.12 besy0
1.13.1.13 besy1
1.13.1.14 ceil
1.13.1.15 cos
1.13.1.16 cosh
1.13.1.17 erf
1.13.1.18 erfc
1.13.1.19 exp
1.13.1.20 floor
1.13.1.21 gamma
1.13.1.22 ibeta
1.13.1.23 inverf
1.13.1.24 igamma
1.13.1.25 imag
1.13.1.26 invnorm
1.13.1.27 int
1.13.1.28 lambertw
1.13.1.29 lgamma
1.13.1.30 log
1.13.1.31 log10
1.13.1.32 norm
1.13.1.33 rand
1.13.1.34 real
1.13.1.35 sgn
1.13.1.36 sin
1.13.1.37 sinh
1.13.1.38 sqrt
1.13.1.39 tan
1.13.1.40 tanh
1.13.1.41 gprintf
1.13.1.42 sprintf
1.13.1.43 strlen
1.13.1.44 strstrt
1.13.1.45 substr
1.13.1.46 strftime
1.13.1.47 strptime
1.13.1.48 system
1.13.1.49 word
1.13.1.50 words
1.13.1.51 column
1.13.1.52 defined
1.13.1.53 exists
1.13.1.54 stringcolumn
1.13.1.55 timecolumn
1.13.1.56 tm_hour
1.13.1.57 tm_mday
1.13.1.58 tm_min
1.13.1.59 tm_mon
1.13.1.60 tm_sec
1.13.1.61 tm_wday
1.13.1.62 tm_yday
1.13.1.63 tm_year
1.13.1.64 valid
1.13.1.65 Random number generator
1.13.2 Operators
1.13.2.1 Unary
1.13.2.2 Binary
1.13.2.3 Ternary
1.13.3 Gnuplot-defined variables
1.13.4 User-defined variables and functions
1.14 Glossary
1.15 linetype, colors, and styles
1.15.1 colorspec
1.15.1.1 linecolor variable
1.16 mouse input
1.16.1 bind
1.16.2 Mouse variables
1.17 Plotting
1.18 Start-up
1.19 String constants and string variables
1.20 Substitution and Command line macros
1.20.1 Substitution of system commands in backquotes
1.20.2 Substitution of string variables as macros
1.20.3 String variables, macros, and command line substitution
1.21 Syntax
1.21.1 Quote Marks
1.22 Time/Date data
2 Commands
2.1 cd
2.2 call
2.3 clear
2.4 exit
2.5 fit
2.5.1 adjustable parameters
2.5.2 short introduction
2.5.3 error estimates
2.5.3.1 statistical overview
2.5.3.2 practical guidelines
2.5.4 control
2.5.4.1 control variables
2.5.4.2 environment variables
2.5.5 multi-branch
2.5.6 starting values
2.5.7 tips
2.6 help
2.7 history
2.8 if
2.9 load
2.10 lower
2.11 pause
2.12 plot
2.12.1 data
2.12.1.1 binary
2.12.1.2 binary general
2.12.1.3 every
2.12.1.4 example datafile
2.12.1.5 index
2.12.1.6 smooth
2.12.1.7 special-filenames
2.12.1.8 thru
2.12.1.9 using
2.12.2 errorbars
2.12.3 errorlines
2.12.4 parametric
2.12.5 ranges
2.12.6 title
2.12.7 with
2.13 print
2.14 pwd
2.15 quit
2.16 raise
2.17 replot
2.18 reread
2.19 reset
2.20 save
2.21 set-show
2.21.1 angles
2.21.2 arrow
2.21.3 autoscale
2.21.3.1 parametric mode
2.21.3.2 polar mode
2.21.4 bars
2.21.5 bmargin
2.21.6 border
2.21.7 boxwidth
2.21.8 clabel
2.21.9 clip
2.21.10 cntrparam
2.21.11 color box
2.21.12 contour
2.21.13 data style
2.21.14 datafile
2.21.14.1 set datafile fortran
2.21.14.2 set datafile missing
2.21.14.3 set datafile separator
2.21.14.4 set datafile commentschars
2.21.14.5 set datafile binary
2.21.15 decimalsign
2.21.16 dgrid3d
2.21.17 dummy
2.21.18 encoding
2.21.19 fit
2.21.20 fontpath
2.21.21 format
2.21.21.1 gprintf
2.21.21.2 format specifiers
2.21.21.3 time/date specifiers
2.21.22 function style
2.21.23 functions
2.21.24 grid
2.21.25 hidden3d
2.21.26 historysize
2.21.27 isosamples
2.21.28 key
2.21.29 label
2.21.30 lmargin
2.21.31 loadpath
2.21.32 locale
2.21.33 logscale
2.21.34 macros
2.21.35 mapping
2.21.36 margin
2.21.37 mouse
2.21.37.1 X11 mouse
2.21.38 multiplot
2.21.39 mx2tics
2.21.40 mxtics
2.21.41 my2tics
2.21.42 mytics
2.21.43 mztics
2.21.44 offsets
2.21.45 origin
2.21.46 output
2.21.47 parametric
2.21.48 plot
2.21.49 pm3d
2.21.49.1 depthorder
2.21.50 palette
2.21.50.1 rgbformulae
2.21.50.2 defined
2.21.50.3 functions
2.21.50.4 file
2.21.50.5 gamma correction
2.21.50.6 postscript
2.21.50.7 colornames
2.21.51 pointsize
2.21.52 polar
2.21.53 print
2.21.54 object
2.21.55 rmargin
2.21.56 rrange
2.21.57 samples
2.21.58 size
2.21.59 style
2.21.59.1 set style arrow
2.21.59.2 set style data
2.21.59.3 set style fill
2.21.59.4 set style function
2.21.59.5 set style increment
2.21.59.6 set style line
2.21.59.7 plotting styles
2.21.59.8 set style rectangle
2.21.60 surface
2.21.61 table
2.21.62 terminal
2.21.63 termoption
2.21.64 tics
2.21.65 ticslevel
2.21.66 ticscale
2.21.67 timestamp
2.21.68 timefmt
2.21.69 title
2.21.70 tmargin
2.21.71 trange
2.21.72 urange
2.21.73 variables
2.21.74 version
2.21.75 view
2.21.76 vrange
2.21.77 x2data
2.21.78 x2dtics
2.21.79 x2label
2.21.80 x2mtics
2.21.81 x2range
2.21.82 x2tics
2.21.83 x2zeroaxis
2.21.84 xdata
2.21.85 xdtics
2.21.86 xlabel
2.21.87 xmtics
2.21.88 xrange
2.21.89 xtics
2.21.89.1 xtics time_data
2.21.89.2 xtics rangelimited
2.21.90 xyplane
2.21.91 xzeroaxis
2.21.92 y2data
2.21.93 y2dtics
2.21.94 y2label
2.21.95 y2mtics
2.21.96 y2range
2.21.97 y2tics
2.21.98 y2zeroaxis
2.21.99 ydata
2.21.100 ydtics
2.21.101 ylabel
2.21.102 ymtics
2.21.103 yrange
2.21.104 ytics
2.21.105 yzeroaxis
2.21.106 zdata
2.21.107 zdtics
2.21.108 zzeroaxis
2.21.109 cbdata
2.21.110 cbdtics
2.21.111 zero
2.21.112 zeroaxis
2.21.113 zlabel
2.21.114 zmtics
2.21.115 zrange
2.21.116 ztics
2.21.117 cblabel
2.21.118 cbmtics
2.21.119 cbrange
2.21.120 cbtics
2.22 shell
2.23 splot
2.23.1 data-file
2.23.1.1 binary matrix
2.23.1.2 example datafile
2.23.1.3 matrix_ascii
2.23.1.4 matrix
2.23.2 grid data
2.23.3 splot overview
2.24 system
2.25 test
2.26 undefine
2.27 unset
2.28 update
3 Terminal types
3.1 terminal
3.1.0.1 aed767
3.1.0.2 aifm
3.1.0.3 amiga
3.1.0.4 apollo
3.1.0.5 aqua
3.1.0.6 atari ST (via AES)
3.1.0.7 atari ST (via VDI)
3.1.0.8 be
3.1.0.9 cgi
3.1.0.10 cgm
3.1.0.11 corel
3.1.0.12 debug
3.1.0.13 svga
3.1.0.14 dumb
3.1.0.15 dxf
3.1.0.16 dxy800a
3.1.0.17 eepic
3.1.0.18 emf
3.1.0.19 emxvga
3.1.0.20 epson-180dpi
3.1.0.21 excl
3.1.0.22 hercules
3.1.0.23 fig
3.1.0.24 png
3.1.0.25 ggi
3.1.0.26 Gnugraph(GNU plotutils)
3.1.0.27 gpic
3.1.0.28 gpic
3.1.0.29 gpr
3.1.0.30 grass
3.1.0.31 hp2623a
3.1.0.32 hp2648
3.1.0.33 hp500c
3.1.0.34 hpgl
3.1.0.35 hpljii
3.1.0.36 hppj
3.1.0.37 imagen
3.1.0.38 iris4d
3.1.0.39 kyo
3.1.0.40 latex
3.1.0.41 linux
3.1.0.42 linux
3.1.0.43 macintosh
3.1.0.44 mf
3.1.0.45 mp
3.1.0.46 mgr
3.1.0.47 mif
3.1.0.48 mtos
3.1.0.49 next
3.1.0.50 Openstep (next)
3.1.0.51 pbm
3.1.0.52 dospc
3.1.0.53 pdf
3.1.0.54 pstricks
3.1.0.55 qms
3.1.0.56 regis
3.1.0.57 regis
3.1.0.58 rgip
3.1.0.59 sun
3.1.0.60 svg
3.1.0.61 tek410x
3.1.0.62 tek410x
3.1.0.63 tek40
3.1.0.64 texdraw
3.1.0.65 tgif
3.1.0.66 tgif
3.1.0.67 tkcanvas
3.1.0.68 tpic
3.1.0.69 unixpc
3.1.0.70 unixplot
3.1.0.71 vx384
3.1.0.72 vgagl
3.1.0.73 VWS
3.1.0.74 windows
3.1.0.75 x11
3.1.0.76 x11
3.1.0.77 xlib
3.1.0.78 xlib
4 Graphical User Interfaces
5 Bugs
5.1 Gnuplot limitations
5.2 External libraries
Concept Index
Command Index
Options Index
Function Index
Terminal Index