Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • A brief history of plt
  • How to read this book
  • How to avoid reading this book
  
  
• Getting Started with plt
  • plt Essentials
  • Using plt without an X server
  • More about options
  • Tutorial: Simple Plots
    • Screen and printed plots
    • Adding titles and axis labels
    • Setting up the axes
    • A simple scatter plot
    • Using color
  • Plotting an image
  • Plotting a function of a single variable
  
  
• Preparing Input for plt
  • Text data files
  • Comma-separated value (CSV) files
  • Binary data files
  • Data specifications
  • Generating abscissas automatically
  • Format files
  • String arrays
  
  
• Coordinate Systems
• Titles and Axes
  • ``Quickplot'' mode
  
  
• Plotting Data
  • A gallery of plotstyles
  
  
• Plotting Two or More Data Sets Together
  • Plotting multiple data sets on one set of axes
  • Legends
  • Placing multiple plots on a page
  
  
• Labelling Your Plot
  • Concatenating labels
  
  
• Drawing Line Segments, Arrows, and Boxes
• Suppressing Plot Elements
• Colors, Line Styles, and Fonts
• Advanced Axis Options
• Color Names
• Preparing Printed Output
  • Generating EPSF using plt
  • Including plt figures in a L^ATEX document
  • Margins, cropping, and bounding boxes
  • Processing, previewing and printing
  • Using plt with pdfL^ATEX
  
  
• Preparing Plots for the Web
• On-Screen Plots
• Scripting with plt
• How to get and install plt
  • Compiling plt under Linux or Unix
  • Compiling and Using plt under Mac OS X (Darwin)
  • Compiling and Using plt under MS-Windows
  
  
• What's New?
  • Known bugs
  
  
• man Pages for the plt Package
• Index