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aed512
:
aed767
aed767
:
aed767
amiga
:
amiga
apollo
:
apollo
cgi
:
cgi
cgm
:
cgm
corel
:
corel
debug
:
debug
dospc
:
dospc
dpu414
:
epson_180dpi
dumb
:
dumb
dxf
:
dxf
dxy800a
:
dxy800a
eepic
:
eepic
egalib
:
hercules
egamono
:
hercules
emf
:
emf
emtex
:
latex
emxvesa
:
emxvga
emxvga
:
emxvga
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
kc-tek40xx
:
tek40
kyo
:
kyo
latex
:
latex
linux
:
linux_
linux
:
linux
lua
:
lua
macintosh
:
macintosh
mgr
:
mgr
mif
:
mif
okidata
:
epson_180dpi
pbm
:
pbm
pcl5
:
hpgl
pdf
:
External_libraries
pdf
:
pdf
pdf
:
cairo_(pdfcairo
pdfcairo
:
pdfcairo
png
:
png_
png
:
gd_(png
png
:
cairo_(pdfcairo
prescribe
:
kyo
printing
:
windows
pstricks
:
pstricks
qms
:
qms
regis
:
regis_
regis
:
regis
rgip
:
rgip
ssvgalib
:
hercules
starc
:
epson_180dpi
sun
:
sun
svg
:
svg
svga
:
svga
svgalib
:
External_libraries
svgalib
:
hercules
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
vgagl
:
vgagl
vgal
:
emxvga
vgalib
:
hercules
vgamono
:
hercules
vttek
:
tek40
VWS
:
VWS
vx384
:
vx384
wgnuplot.ini
:
windows
windows
:
windows
wxt
:
wxt
wxt
:
cairo_(pdfcairo
xlib
:
xlib_
xlib
:
xlib
xterm
:
tek40
Table of Contents
Master Menu
1 gnuplot
1.1 Copyright
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Seeking-assistance
1.4 New features introduced in version 4.4
1.4.1 Internationalization
1.4.2 Transparency
1.4.3 Volatile Data
1.4.4 Canvas size
1.4.5 New plot elements
1.4.6 New or revised terminal drivers
1.4.7 New smoothing algorithms
1.5 Backwards compatibility
1.6 Batch/Interactive Operation
1.7 Command-line-editing
1.8 Comments
1.9 Coordinates
1.10 Datastrings
1.11 Enhanced text mode
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 EllipticK
1.13.1.11 EllipticE
1.13.1.12 EllipticPi
1.13.1.13 besj0
1.13.1.14 besj1
1.13.1.15 besy0
1.13.1.16 besy1
1.13.1.17 ceil
1.13.1.18 cos
1.13.1.19 cosh
1.13.1.20 erf
1.13.1.21 erfc
1.13.1.22 exp
1.13.1.23 floor
1.13.1.24 gamma
1.13.1.25 ibeta
1.13.1.26 inverf
1.13.1.27 igamma
1.13.1.28 imag
1.13.1.29 invnorm
1.13.1.30 int
1.13.1.31 lambertw
1.13.1.32 lgamma
1.13.1.33 log
1.13.1.34 log10
1.13.1.35 norm
1.13.1.36 rand
1.13.1.37 real
1.13.1.38 sgn
1.13.1.39 sin
1.13.1.40 sinh
1.13.1.41 sqrt
1.13.1.42 tan
1.13.1.43 tanh
1.13.1.44 gprintf
1.13.1.45 sprintf
1.13.1.46 strlen
1.13.1.47 strstrt
1.13.1.48 substr
1.13.1.49 strftime
1.13.1.50 strptime
1.13.1.51 system
1.13.1.52 word
1.13.1.53 words
1.13.1.54 column
1.13.1.55 defined
1.13.1.56 exists
1.13.1.57 stringcolumn
1.13.1.58 timecolumn
1.13.1.59 tm_hour
1.13.1.60 tm_mday
1.13.1.61 tm_min
1.13.1.62 tm_mon
1.13.1.63 tm_sec
1.13.1.64 tm_wday
1.13.1.65 tm_yday
1.13.1.66 tm_year
1.13.1.67 valid
1.13.1.68 elliptic integrals
1.13.1.69 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 Fonts
1.14.1 cairo (pdfcairo, pngcairo, wxt terminals)
1.14.2 gd (png, gif, jpeg terminals)
1.14.3 postscript (also encapsulated postscript *.eps)
1.15 Glossary
1.16 linetype, colors, and styles
1.16.1 colorspec
1.16.1.1 rgbcolor variable
1.16.1.2 linecolor variable
1.17 mouse input
1.17.1 bind
1.17.1.1 bind space
1.17.2 Mouse variables
1.18 Plotting
1.19 Start-up
1.20 String constants and string variables
1.21 Substitution and Command line macros
1.21.1 Substitution of system commands in backquotes
1.21.2 Substitution of string variables as macros
1.21.3 String variables, macros, and command line substitution
1.22 Syntax
1.22.1 Quote Marks
1.23 Time/Date data
2 plotting styles
2.1 boxerrorbars
2.2 boxes
2.3 boxxyerrorbars
2.4 candlesticks
2.5 circles
2.6 dots
2.7 filledcurves
2.8 financebars
2.9 fsteps
2.10 histeps
2.11 histograms
2.11.1 newhistogram
2.11.2 automated iteration over multiple columns
2.12 image
2.12.1 transparency
2.12.2 image failsafe
2.13 impulses
2.14 labels
2.15 lines
2.16 linespoints
2.17 points
2.18 steps
2.19 rgbalpha
2.20 rgbimage
2.21 vectors
2.22 xerrorbars
2.23 xyerrorbars
2.24 yerrorbars
2.25 xerrorlines
2.26 xyerrorlines
2.27 yerrorlines
2.28 3D (surface) plots
3 Commands
3.1 cd
3.2 call
3.3 clear
3.4 evaluate
3.5 exit
3.6 fit
3.6.1 adjustable parameters
3.6.2 short introduction
3.6.3 error estimates
3.6.3.1 statistical overview
3.6.3.2 practical guidelines
3.6.4 control
3.6.4.1 control variables
3.6.4.2 environment variables
3.6.5 multi-branch
3.6.6 starting values
3.6.7 tips
3.7 help
3.8 history
3.9 if
3.10 iteration
3.11 load
3.12 lower
3.13 pause
3.14 plot
3.14.1 axes
3.14.2 data
3.14.2.1 binary
3.14.2.2 binary general
3.14.2.3 every
3.14.2.4 example datafile
3.14.2.5 index
3.14.2.6 smooth
3.14.2.7 special-filenames
3.14.2.8 thru
3.14.2.9 using
3.14.3 errorbars
3.14.4 errorlines
3.14.5 parametric
3.14.6 ranges
3.14.7 iteration
3.14.8 title
3.14.9 with
3.15 print
3.16 pwd
3.17 quit
3.18 raise
3.19 refresh
3.20 replot
3.21 reread
3.22 reset
3.23 save
3.24 set-show
3.24.1 angles
3.24.2 arrow
3.24.3 autoscale
3.24.3.1 parametric mode
3.24.3.2 polar mode
3.24.4 bars
3.24.5 bind
3.24.6 bmargin
3.24.7 border
3.24.8 boxwidth
3.24.9 clabel
3.24.10 clip
3.24.11 cntrparam
3.24.12 color box
3.24.13 colornames
3.24.14 contour
3.24.15 data style
3.24.16 datafile
3.24.16.1 set datafile fortran
3.24.16.2 set datafile nofpe_trap
3.24.16.3 set datafile missing
3.24.16.4 set datafile separator
3.24.16.5 set datafile commentschars
3.24.16.6 set datafile binary
3.24.17 decimalsign
3.24.18 dgrid3d
3.24.19 dummy
3.24.20 encoding
3.24.21 fit
3.24.22 fontpath
3.24.23 format
3.24.23.1 gprintf
3.24.23.2 format specifiers
3.24.23.3 time/date specifiers
3.24.24 function style
3.24.25 functions
3.24.26 grid
3.24.27 hidden3d
3.24.28 historysize
3.24.29 isosamples
3.24.30 key
3.24.30.1 key placement
3.24.30.2 key samples
3.24.31 label
3.24.32 lmargin
3.24.33 loadpath
3.24.34 locale
3.24.35 logscale
3.24.36 macros
3.24.37 mapping
3.24.38 margin
3.24.39 mouse
3.24.39.1 X11 mouse
3.24.40 multiplot
3.24.41 mx2tics
3.24.42 mxtics
3.24.43 my2tics
3.24.44 mytics
3.24.45 mztics
3.24.46 object
3.24.46.1 rectangle
3.24.46.2 ellipse
3.24.46.3 circle
3.24.46.4 polygon
3.24.47 offsets
3.24.48 origin
3.24.49 output
3.24.50 parametric
3.24.51 plot
3.24.52 pm3d
3.24.52.1 depthorder
3.24.53 palette
3.24.53.1 rgbformulae
3.24.53.2 defined
3.24.53.3 functions
3.24.53.4 file
3.24.53.5 gamma correction
3.24.53.6 postscript
3.24.54 pointsize
3.24.55 polar
3.24.56 print
3.24.57 rmargin
3.24.58 rrange
3.24.59 samples
3.24.60 size
3.24.61 style
3.24.61.1 set style arrow
3.24.61.2 set style data
3.24.61.3 set style fill
3.24.61.4 set style function
3.24.61.5 set style increment
3.24.61.6 set style line
3.24.61.7 set style rectangle
3.24.62 surface
3.24.63 table
3.24.64 terminal
3.24.65 termoption
3.24.66 tics
3.24.67 ticslevel
3.24.68 ticscale
3.24.69 timestamp
3.24.70 timefmt
3.24.71 title
3.24.72 tmargin
3.24.73 trange
3.24.74 urange
3.24.75 variables
3.24.76 version
3.24.77 view
3.24.77.1 equal_axes
3.24.78 vrange
3.24.79 x2data
3.24.80 x2dtics
3.24.81 x2label
3.24.82 x2mtics
3.24.83 x2range
3.24.84 x2tics
3.24.85 x2zeroaxis
3.24.86 xdata
3.24.87 xdtics
3.24.88 xlabel
3.24.89 xmtics
3.24.90 xrange
3.24.91 xtics
3.24.91.1 xtics time_data
3.24.91.2 xtics rangelimited
3.24.92 xyplane
3.24.93 xzeroaxis
3.24.94 y2data
3.24.95 y2dtics
3.24.96 y2label
3.24.97 y2mtics
3.24.98 y2range
3.24.99 y2tics
3.24.100 y2zeroaxis
3.24.101 ydata
3.24.102 ydtics
3.24.103 ylabel
3.24.104 ymtics
3.24.105 yrange
3.24.106 ytics
3.24.107 yzeroaxis
3.24.108 zdata
3.24.109 zdtics
3.24.110 zzeroaxis
3.24.111 cbdata
3.24.112 cbdtics
3.24.113 zero
3.24.114 zeroaxis
3.24.115 zlabel
3.24.116 zmtics
3.24.117 zrange
3.24.118 ztics
3.24.119 cblabel
3.24.120 cbmtics
3.24.121 cbrange
3.24.122 cbtics
3.25 shell
3.26 splot
3.26.1 data-file
3.26.1.1 binary matrix
3.26.1.2 example datafile
3.26.1.3 matrix_ascii
3.26.1.4 matrix
3.26.2 grid data
3.26.3 splot overview
3.27 system
3.28 test
3.29 undefine
3.30 unset
3.31 update
4 Terminal types
4.1 complete list of terminals
4.1.0.1 aed767
4.1.0.2 aifm
4.1.0.3 amiga
4.1.0.4 apollo
4.1.0.5 aqua
4.1.0.6 be
4.1.0.7 pdfcairo
4.1.0.8 canvas
4.1.0.9 cgi
4.1.0.10 cgm
4.1.0.11 corel
4.1.0.12 debug
4.1.0.13 svga
4.1.0.14 dumb
4.1.0.15 dxf
4.1.0.16 dxy800a
4.1.0.17 eepic
4.1.0.18 emf
4.1.0.19 emxvga
4.1.0.20 epson_180dpi
4.1.0.21 excl
4.1.0.22 hercules
4.1.0.23 fig
4.1.0.24 png
4.1.0.25 ggi
4.1.0.26 Gnugraph(GNU plotutils)
4.1.0.27 gpic
4.1.0.28 gpic
4.1.0.29 gpr
4.1.0.30 grass
4.1.0.31 hp2623a
4.1.0.32 hp2648
4.1.0.33 hp500c
4.1.0.34 hpgl
4.1.0.35 hpljii
4.1.0.36 hppj
4.1.0.37 imagen
4.1.0.38 kyo
4.1.0.39 latex
4.1.0.40 linux
4.1.0.41 linux
4.1.0.42 lua
4.1.0.43 macintosh
4.1.0.44 mf
4.1.0.45 mp
4.1.0.46 mgr
4.1.0.47 mif
4.1.0.48 next
4.1.0.49 Openstep (next)
4.1.0.50 pbm
4.1.0.51 dospc
4.1.0.52 pdf
4.1.0.53 pstricks
4.1.0.54 qms
4.1.0.55 regis
4.1.0.56 regis
4.1.0.57 rgip
4.1.0.58 sun
4.1.0.59 svg
4.1.0.60 tek410x
4.1.0.61 tek410x
4.1.0.62 tek40
4.1.0.63 texdraw
4.1.0.64 tgif
4.1.0.65 tgif
4.1.0.66 tkcanvas
4.1.0.67 tpic
4.1.0.68 unixpc
4.1.0.69 unixplot
4.1.0.70 vx384
4.1.0.71 vgagl
4.1.0.72 VWS
4.1.0.73 windows
4.1.0.74 wxt
4.1.0.75 x11
4.1.0.76 x11
4.1.0.77 xlib
4.1.0.78 xlib
5 Graphical User Interfaces
6 Bugs
6.1 Gnuplot limitations
6.2 External libraries
Concept Index
Command Index
Options Index
Function Index
Terminal Index