Recommended reading:
COPYRIGHT - legal stuff
LICENSE - license terms (GPL)
CHANGES - chronological list of changes
doc/FAQ.html - frequently asked questions (in HTML format)
The installation procedure is covered in the User's Guide (in the doc directory).
Direct fork from fxcoudert/xmgrace.
XmGrace with a more appealing look by replacing symbols to Pentagon, Hexagon, and Octagon instead of triangle variants.
Adding routine to plot symbols plus, cross, and star as polygons instead of lines allowing filling with color.
Introducing slithly modified Default.agr with colors similar to seaborn/matplotlib, see figure below.
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change Default.agr for more pleasing appearance
- line thickness
- font Helvetica in most dialogs
- suitable DIN A4 plotting screen
- pleasing colors as in seaborn/matplotlib
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adding plotting routine to replace symbols by polygons
- rename Triangle up -> Triangle
- reamme Triangle left -> Pentagon
- rename Triangle down -> Hexagon
- rename Triangle right -> Octagon
- replace drawing for plus, cross, and star
- see line 1945-1999 in platone.c for triangle fan as in matplotlib
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default behavior: ps file export at start-up
# configures the application - see also doc/UsersGuide.pdf
./configures
# build the application
make
# run the application
./src/xmgrace
# install the application with root
sudo make install
# use inkscape to convert ps to png
inkscape --export-type="png" -D xmgrace_plot.ps
# use ghostview to convert ps to pdf
gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dDELAYSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=xmgrace_plot.pdf -DPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c "<</Orientation 3>> setpagedevice" -f xmgrace_plot.ps
Unicode/LaTex font support: install of additional fonts and changes in Default.agr
XmGrace .agr-parser: python module for parsing .agr files
JScatter xmgrace-binding: use python3 to access xmgrace
XmGrace patch by feranick: after build xmgrace looks amazing and is more intuitive to use
XmGrace patch by vigmond: after build xmgrace looks even more amazing and is more intuitive to use (but sadly breaks the default agr.file in non critical way)
Big thanks to the XmGrace community to keep it alive :)