Gnuplot: An Interactive Plotting Program

                       GNUPLOT

            An Interactive Plotting Program
             Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley
          Version 3.7 organized by: David Denholm

 Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998   Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley

       Mailing list for comments: info-gnuplot@dartmouth.edu
     Mailing list for bug reports: bug-gnuplot@dartmouth.edu

         This manual was prepared by Dick Crawford
                   3 December 1998

Major contributors (alphabetic order):

• Hans-Bernhard Broeker
• John Campbell
• Robert Cunningham
• David Denholm
• Gershon Elber
• Roger Fearick
• Carsten Grammes
• Lucas Hart
• Lars Hecking
• Thomas Koenig
• David Kotz
• Ed Kubaitis
• Russell Lang
• Alexander Lehmann
• Alexander Mai
• Carsten Steger
• Tom Tkacik
• Jos Van der Woude
• James R. Van Zandt
• Alex Woo

• 1 gnuplot
  • 1.1 Copyright
  • 1.2 Introduction
  • 1.3 Seeking-assistance
  • 1.4 What's New in version 3.7
  • 1.5 Batch/Interactive Operation
  • 1.6 Command-line-editing
  • 1.7 Comments
  • 1.8 Coordinates
  • 1.9 Environment
  • 1.10 Expressions
    • 1.10.1 Functions
      • 1.10.1.1 abs
      • 1.10.1.2 acos
      • 1.10.1.3 acosh
      • 1.10.1.4 arg
      • 1.10.1.5 asin
      • 1.10.1.6 asinh
      • 1.10.1.7 atan
      • 1.10.1.8 atan2
      • 1.10.1.9 atanh
      • 1.10.1.10 besj0
      • 1.10.1.11 besj1
      • 1.10.1.12 besy0
      • 1.10.1.13 besy1
      • 1.10.1.14 ceil
      • 1.10.1.15 cos
      • 1.10.1.16 cosh
      • 1.10.1.17 erf
      • 1.10.1.18 erfc
      • 1.10.1.19 exp
      • 1.10.1.20 floor
      • 1.10.1.21 gamma
      • 1.10.1.22 ibeta
      • 1.10.1.23 inverf
      • 1.10.1.24 igamma
      • 1.10.1.25 imag
      • 1.10.1.26 invnorm
      • 1.10.1.27 int
      • 1.10.1.28 lgamma
      • 1.10.1.29 log
      • 1.10.1.30 log10
      • 1.10.1.31 norm
      • 1.10.1.32 rand
      • 1.10.1.33 real
      • 1.10.1.34 sgn
      • 1.10.1.35 sin
      • 1.10.1.36 sinh
      • 1.10.1.37 sqrt
      • 1.10.1.38 tan
      • 1.10.1.39 tanh
      • 1.10.1.40 column
      • 1.10.1.41 tm_hour
      • 1.10.1.42 tm_mday
      • 1.10.1.43 tm_min
      • 1.10.1.44 tm_mon
      • 1.10.1.45 tm_sec
      • 1.10.1.46 tm_wday
      • 1.10.1.47 tm_yday
      • 1.10.1.48 tm_year
      • 1.10.1.49 valid
    • 1.10.2 Operators
      • 1.10.2.1 Unary
      • 1.10.2.2 Binary
      • 1.10.2.3 Ternary
    • 1.10.3 User-defined
  • 1.11 Glossary
  • 1.12 Plotting
  • 1.13 Start-up
  • 1.14 Substitution
  • 1.15 Syntax
  • 1.16 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 beginner's guide
    • 2.5.3 error estimates
      • 2.5.3.1 statistical overview
      • 2.5.3.2 practical guidelines
    • 2.5.4 fit controlling
      • 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 if
  • 2.8 load
  • 2.9 pause
  • 2.10 plot
    • 2.10.1 data-file
      • 2.10.1.1 every
      • 2.10.1.2 example datafile
      • 2.10.1.3 index
      • 2.10.1.4 smooth
      • 2.10.1.5 special-filenames
      • 2.10.1.6 thru
      • 2.10.1.7 using
    • 2.10.2 errorbars
    • 2.10.3 parametric
    • 2.10.4 ranges
    • 2.10.5 title
    • 2.10.6 with
  • 2.11 print
  • 2.12 pwd
  • 2.13 quit
  • 2.14 replot
  • 2.15 reread
  • 2.16 reset
  • 2.17 save
  • 2.18 set-show
    • 2.18.1 angles
    • 2.18.2 arrow
    • 2.18.3 autoscale
      • 2.18.3.1 parametric mode
      • 2.18.3.2 polar mode
    • 2.18.4 bar
    • 2.18.5 bmargin
    • 2.18.6 border
    • 2.18.7 boxwidth
    • 2.18.8 clabel
    • 2.18.9 clip
    • 2.18.10 cntrparam
    • 2.18.11 contour
    • 2.18.12 data style
    • 2.18.13 dgrid3d
    • 2.18.14 dummy
    • 2.18.15 encoding
    • 2.18.16 format
      • 2.18.16.1 format specifiers
      • 2.18.16.2 time/date specifiers
    • 2.18.17 function style
    • 2.18.18 functions
    • 2.18.19 grid
    • 2.18.20 hidden3d
    • 2.18.21 isosamples
    • 2.18.22 key
    • 2.18.23 label
    • 2.18.24 linestyle
    • 2.18.25 lmargin
    • 2.18.26 locale
    • 2.18.27 logscale
    • 2.18.28 mapping
    • 2.18.29 margin
    • 2.18.30 missing
    • 2.18.31 multiplot
    • 2.18.32 mx2tics
    • 2.18.33 mxtics
    • 2.18.34 my2tics
    • 2.18.35 mytics
    • 2.18.36 mztics
    • 2.18.37 offsets
    • 2.18.38 origin
    • 2.18.39 output
    • 2.18.40 parametric
    • 2.18.41 pointsize
    • 2.18.42 polar
    • 2.18.43 rmargin
    • 2.18.44 rrange
    • 2.18.45 samples
    • 2.18.46 size
    • 2.18.47 style
      • 2.18.47.1 boxerrorbars
      • 2.18.47.2 boxes
      • 2.18.47.3 boxxyerrorbars
      • 2.18.47.4 candlesticks
      • 2.18.47.5 dots
      • 2.18.47.6 financebars
      • 2.18.47.7 fsteps
      • 2.18.47.8 histeps
      • 2.18.47.9 impulses
      • 2.18.47.10 lines
      • 2.18.47.11 linespoints
      • 2.18.47.12 points
      • 2.18.47.13 steps
      • 2.18.47.14 vector
      • 2.18.47.15 xerrorbars
      • 2.18.47.16 xyerrorbars
      • 2.18.47.17 yerrorbars
    • 2.18.48 surface
    • 2.18.49 terminal
      • 2.18.49.1 aifm
      • 2.18.49.2 cgm
      • 2.18.49.3 corel
      • 2.18.49.4 dumb
      • 2.18.49.5 dxf
      • 2.18.49.6 eepic
      • 2.18.49.7 epson-180dpi
      • 2.18.49.8 fig
      • 2.18.49.9 gif
      • 2.18.49.10 gpic
      • 2.18.49.11 hp2623a
      • 2.18.49.12 hp2648
      • 2.18.49.13 hp500c
      • 2.18.49.14 hpgl
      • 2.18.49.15 hpljii
      • 2.18.49.16 hppj
      • 2.18.49.17 imagen
      • 2.18.49.18 latex
      • 2.18.49.19 mf
      • 2.18.49.20 mif
      • 2.18.49.21 pbm
      • 2.18.49.22 png
      • 2.18.49.23 postscript
      • 2.18.49.24 pslatex and pstex
      • 2.18.49.25 pstricks
      • 2.18.49.26 qms
      • 2.18.49.27 regis
      • 2.18.49.28 sun
      • 2.18.49.29 tek410x
      • 2.18.49.30 table
      • 2.18.49.31 tek40
      • 2.18.49.32 texdraw
      • 2.18.49.33 tgif
      • 2.18.49.34 tkcanvas
      • 2.18.49.35 tpic
      • 2.18.49.36 x11
      • 2.18.49.37 xlib
    • 2.18.50 tics
    • 2.18.51 ticslevel
    • 2.18.52 ticscale
    • 2.18.53 timestamp
    • 2.18.54 timefmt
    • 2.18.55 title
    • 2.18.56 tmargin
    • 2.18.57 trange
    • 2.18.58 urange
    • 2.18.59 variables
    • 2.18.60 version
    • 2.18.61 view
    • 2.18.62 vrange
    • 2.18.63 x2data
    • 2.18.64 x2dtics
    • 2.18.65 x2label
    • 2.18.66 x2mtics
    • 2.18.67 x2range
    • 2.18.68 x2tics
    • 2.18.69 x2zeroaxis
    • 2.18.70 xdata
    • 2.18.71 xdtics
    • 2.18.72 xlabel
    • 2.18.73 xmtics
    • 2.18.74 xrange
    • 2.18.75 xtics
    • 2.18.76 xzeroaxis
    • 2.18.77 y2data
    • 2.18.78 y2dtics
    • 2.18.79 y2label
    • 2.18.80 y2mtics
    • 2.18.81 y2range
    • 2.18.82 y2tics
    • 2.18.83 y2zeroaxis
    • 2.18.84 ydata
    • 2.18.85 ydtics
    • 2.18.86 ylabel
    • 2.18.87 ymtics
    • 2.18.88 yrange
    • 2.18.89 ytics
    • 2.18.90 yzeroaxis
    • 2.18.91 zdata
    • 2.18.92 zdtics
    • 2.18.93 zero
    • 2.18.94 zeroaxis
    • 2.18.95 zlabel
    • 2.18.96 zmtics
    • 2.18.97 zrange
    • 2.18.98 ztics
  • 2.19 shell
  • 2.20 splot
    • 2.20.1 data-file
      • 2.20.1.1 binary
      • 2.20.1.2 example datafile
      • 2.20.1.3 matrix
    • 2.20.2 grid_data
    • 2.20.3 splot_overview
  • 2.21 test
  • 2.22 update
• 3 Graphical User Interfaces
• 4 Bugs
  • 4.1 Old_bugs
• Concept Index
• Command Index
• Options Index
• Function Index
• Terminal Index

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