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PYXPLOT

NAME

pyxplot − a commandline plotting package, with interface similar to that of gnuplot, which produces publication-quality output.

SYNOPSIS

pyxplot [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

PyXPlot is a commandline graphing package, which, for ease of use, has an interface based heavily upon that of gnuplot -- perhaps UNIX’s most widely-used plotting package. Despite the shared interface, however, PyXPlot is intended to significantly improve upon the quality of gnuplot’s output, producing publication-quality figures. The commandline interface has also been extended, providing a wealth of new features, and short-cuts for some operations which were felt to be excessively cumbersome in the original.

The motivation behind PyXPlot’s creation was the apparent lack of a free plotting package which combined both high-quality output and a simple interface. Some -- pgplot for one -- provided very attractive output, but required a program to be written each time a plot was to be produced -- a potentially time consuming task. Others, gnuplot being the prime example, were quick and simple to use, but produced less attractive results.

PyXPlot attempts to fill that gap, offering the best of both worlds. Though the interface is based upon that of gnuplot, text is now rendered with all of the beauty and flexibility of the LaTeX typesetting environment; the "multiplot" environment is made massively more flexible, making it easy to produce galleries of plots; and the range of possible output formats is extended -- to name but a few of the enhancements. A number of examples of the results of which PyXPlot is capable can be seen on the PyXPlot website: <http://www.srcf.ucam.org/pyxplot/>.

Full documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/pyxplot/pyxplot.pdf

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

-h, --help: Display this help.
-v, --version: Display version number.
-q, --quiet: Turn off initial welcome message.
-V, --verbose: Turn on initial welcome message.
-c, --colour: Use coloured highlighting of output.
-m, --monochrome: Turn off coloured highlighting.

AUTHOR

Dominic Ford <coders AT pyxplot DOT org DOT uk>

CREDITS

Thanks to Joerg Lehmann and Andre Wobst for writing the PyX graphics library for python, upon which this software is heavily built, and also to Ross Church for his many useful comments and suggestions during its development.

SEE ALSO

pyxplot_watch(1),gnuplot(1)

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