jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) NAME jgraph - filter for graph plotting to postscript SYNTAX jgraph [-p] [-P] [-L] [-comments] [filename ...] - - - -------- -------- DESCRIPTION Jgraph takes the description of a graph or graphs and pro- duces a postscript file on the standard output. Jgraph is ideal for plotting any mixture of scatter point graphs, line graphs, and/or bar graphs, and embedding the output into LaTeX, or any other text processing system which can read postscript. Jgraph reads its input from the specified files. If no files are specified, then it reads from standard input. The graph description language is simple enough to get nice looking graphs with a minimum of effort, yet powerful enough to give the user the flexibility to tailor the appearance of the graph to his or her individual preferences. This includes plotting multiple graphs and laying them out separately on the page (or pages). As an example, if the user wanted to simply plot the points (2,3), (4,5), (1,6), the following would be enough of a specification file: newgraph newcurve pts 2 3 4 5 1 6 Now, if the user wanted to spruce the graph up by adding labels to the axes, connecting the points, and titling the graph, then the input could change to: newgraph newcurve pts 2 3 4 5 1 6 linetype solid xaxis label : X axis yaxis label : Y axis title : This is an example graph If the user instead wanted this to be a bar graph with dif- ferent endpoints on the axes, he/she could simply change the input to: newgraph xaxis min 0 max 5 label : X axis yaxis min 0 max 6 label : Y axis newcurve pts 2 3 4 5 1 6 marktype xbar title : This is an example bar graph SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 1 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) There are many more features of the description language, which are described below in the next section. Features which are not embedded within the description language are: line and function interpolation, function plotting, and pie graphs. The latter is impossible to do with the aid of jgraph, however, the others can be effected with jgraph mixed with awk or c. See FUNCTION PLOTTING AND OTHER NON- INHERENT FEATURES below. Also below is a section HINTS AND EXAMPLE GRAPHS, which may give good ideas on how to use jgraph more effectively. OPTIONS -P The -P option produces postscript which can be piped directly to lpr, which can be displayed in an Xwindows environment with gs (ghostscript). Without this option, the output should be embedded within LaTeX or a similar text processing system. -L The -L option produces a landscape plot. -p The -p option re-prints the input on the standard out- put, only with all the defaults made explicit. This is useful for letting the user do his/her own special for- matting, as it shows the explicit values that the defaults assume, so that they can be manipulated. -comments This option makes jgraph put comments into the output postscript. These make it easier for the user to wade through the final postscript if necessary. THE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE The description language is essentially keywords followed by attributes. All keywords and attributes except for string attributes are tokens -- non-white-space characters sur- rounded by white-space. Special tokens are ``(*'', ``*)'', ``include'', ``:'', and ``shell'', which denote comments, include-file statements, string identifiers, and shell- include statements: Comments Comments are surrounded by the tokens ``(*'' ``*)'' as in Modula-2 (except that here, the tokens must be sur- rounded by white- space). Comments may be nested. If the comment runs to the end of a file, the last ``*)'' may be omitted. Include-file statements The token following an ``include'' token is expected to be a file name. The result of the statement is to include the contents of the file at that point. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 2 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) Include-file statments can be nested within included files, and within shell includes. Strings In places where strings are required (as in graph and curve labels), they are denoted by the token ``:''. The second character after the ``:'' starts the string, and the next newline character terminates it. Thus, the string ``Graph #1'' can be denoted as: : Graph #1<newline> or :<newline> Graph #1<newline> One can get multiline strings by making a backslash the last character before the newline on all but the last line. Notice that in strings white-space is not ignored. This way of denoting strings allows the user to embed leading and trailing spaces, as well as the null string. For example, the null string ``'' is represented by: : <newline> Once a string has been started, it may contain any character. Specifically, it may contain the sequence ``(*'', ``shell'', or ``include'' without starting a comment or including a file. Each line of a string must contain less than 1000 characters. Otherwise string sizes are limited only by the size of memory. Shell-include statements Shell include statements are of the form ``shell'', ``:'', and then a string. The result of the statement is that the string is executed (using popen, which passes the string to sh), and the standard output is included at that point. Shell-includes can be freely nested within include-files and other shell-includes. Shell commands may be more than one line, but must not exceed 1000 characters. The shell statement is not (yet) available on VMS. Notation In the descriptions below: tk {integer} ------- means that token tk must be followed by an integer. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 3 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) tk [integer] ------- means that tk may be followed by an integer, but doesn't have to. In most cases, if tk is not fol- lowed by an integer, then the command denoted by tk is ignored. tk [{integer} {integer}]* ------- ------- means that tk must be followed by an even number of integers. Supported types other than integer are: {float} for ----- floating point entries, {token} for any token, and ----- {string} for a string as defined above. ------ TOP-LEVEL DESCRIPTION COMMANDS newgraph This starts editing a new graph (see GRAPH EDITING COMMANDS). Note that multiple graphs may be drawn on the same page. graph {integer} ------- This edits the graph denoted by {integer}. If the ------- graph doesn't exist, then this command creates it and starts editing it. Newgraph is simply an abbreviation for graph n where n=0 if this is the ----- - first graph, otherwise n=m+1, where m is the larg- est number of any graph so far. copygraph [integer] ------- This creates a new graph, and copies all the attributes from the graph [integer]'s x and y ------- axes, as well as its x translate and y translate ----------- ----------- values, the clipping, the legend defaults, and the title defaults. If the [integer] is omitted, ------- then it copies its values from the ``previous'' graph, which is defined to be the graph with the largest number less than the currrent graph's number. If the current graph has the smallest number, then it will take the last graph from the previous page of graphs. If there is no previous page, then an error will be flagged. (copygraph does not copy the values of the hash at, mhash at, ------- -------- and hash label attributes). ---------- newpage This command is for plotting graphs on multiple pages. After a newpage, the graphs that the user enters will be plotted on a new page. New graphs and strings will be numbered starting with 0. Essentially, newpage is the same as appending ------- together the output of separate calls of jgraph on SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 4 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) the text before the newpage, and on the text after ------- the newpage. Newpage will most likely produce ------- ------- bizarre results if the -P option is not specified. X [float] ----- Y [float] ----- Postscript files to be embedded in LaTeX (and some other programs) contain a ``bounding box'' which defines the area which LaTeX will allocate for the postscript. Other programs use this bounding box as well, sometimes using it to define where to clip the postscript image. Jgraph uses the axis lines and labels, and the title to generate its bounding box. Most of the time that's good enough to work in LaTeX. The Y and X commands say to - - make the height and width of the bounding box at least Y and X inches, respectively, but to main- - - tain the current centering of the graph. If you still need further control over the bounding box (e.g. to change the centering), try the bbox com- ---- mand. If there's more than one page in the jgraph file, Y, X and bbox values can be given for each - - ---- graph. bbox float float float float ----- ----- ----- ----- If the Y and X commands aren't enough to help you - - define a good bounding box, this command lets you explicitly enter one which will go directly into the jgraph output. Its units are the final postscript units. It's probably best to use the -pFR option to see what the bounding box is that jgraph produces, and then alter that accordingly with bbox. The main use for this is to change the ---- automatic centering that jgraph performs: Usually the center of the bounding box that jgraph com- putes is put at the center of the page. Changing the bbox changes this center. preamble : {string} ------ preamble {token} ----- epilogue : {string} ------ epilogue {token} ----- These two commands allow the user to include strings or files (the token specifies the filename) which will be copied directly into jgraph's output. The preamble is included at the -------- beginning of the output (after some initial postscript to set things up for jgraph), and the epilogue is included at the end. A good use for -------- the preamble is to set up a postscript dictionary -------- if you're using postscript marks. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 5 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) GRAPH EDITING COMMANDS These commands act on the current graph. Graph editing is terminated when one of the top-level description commands is given. xaxis yaxis Edit the x or y axis (see AXIS EDITING COMMANDS) newcurve This starts editing a new curve of the graph (see CURVE EDITING COMMANDS). curve {integer} ------- This edits the curve denoted by {integer}. If the ------- curve doesn't exist, then this command creates it and starts editing it. Newcurve and curve interact -------- ----- as newgraph and graph do. -------- ----- newline This is an abbreviation for: newcurve marktype none linetype solid copycurve [integer] ------- This starts editing a new curve of the graph, and copies all its values except for the points from curve [integer.] If the [integer] is omitted, ------- ------- then it copies its values from the last curve in this graph. If this graph currently has no curves, then it searches backwards from the previ- ous graph. title This edits the title of the graph (see LABEL EDIT- ING COMMANDS). The title is given a default loca- tion centered beneath the graph, and a default font size of 12, however, as with all labels, this can be changed. legend The edits the legend of the graph (see LEGEND EDITING COMMANDS). As a default, the graph will contain a legend if any of its curves have labels. newstring This edits a new text string (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS). This is useful as it allows the user to plot text on the graph as well as curves. string {integer} ------- copystring [integer] ------- SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 6 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) String and copystring are to newstring as curve ------ ---------- --------- ----- and copycurve are to newcurve. --------- -------- border noborder Border draws a square border around the area ------ defined by the axes. Noborder specifies no -------- border. Noborder is the default. -------- clip noclip Clip specifies that all curves in the graph will ---- be clipped -- that is, no points outside of the of axes will be plotted. Clipping can also be speci- fied on a per-curve basis. The default is noclip. ------ inherit axes - This is an old command which is kept for backward compatibility. Copycurve. is equivalent to: --------- newgraph inherit axes - x translate [float] - ----- y translate [float] - ----- By default, the bottom left-hand corner of each graph is at point (0,0) (final postscript units). X translate and Y translate translate the bottom ----------- ----------- left-hand corner of the graph [float] inches. The ----- main use of this is to draw more than one graph on a page. Note that jgraph considers all the graphs drawn on the page when it computes its bounding box for centering. Thus, if only one graph is drawn, it will always be centered on the page, regardless of its X translate and Y translate ----------- ----------- values. These values are used for relative place- ment of the graphs. To change the centering of the graphs, use bbox. ---- X [float] ----- Y [float] ----- These are the same as X and Y in the Top-level - - commands, except that they let the user continue editing the current graph. SIMPLE AXIS EDITING COMMANDS These commands act on the current axis as chosen by xaxis or yaxis (see GRAPH EDITING COMMANDS). Axis edit- ----- ----- ing terminates when a graph or top-level command is given. There are more advanced axis editing commands given below which have to do with moving the hash marks, adding new hash marks and labels, etc. See SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 7 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) ADVANCED AXIS EDITING COMMANDS. linear log Set the axis to be linear or logarithmic. The default is linear. If the axis is set to be loga- rithmic, then values <= 0.0 will be disallowed, as they are at negative infinity on the axis. min [float] ----- max [float] ----- Set the minimum and maximum values of this axis. Defaults depend on the points given. They can be seen by using the -p option. Unless stated, all units (for example point plotting, string plot- ting, etc.) will be in terms of the min and max --- --- values of the x and y axes. size [float] ----- Set the size of this axis in inches. log base [float] - ----- Set the base of the logarithmic axis. Default = 10. This is the value which determines which hash marks and hash labels are automatically produced. hash [float] ----- Hash marks will be [float] units apart. Default = ----- -1. If this value equals 0, then there will be no hash marks. If this value is less than 0, then the hash marks will be automatically set by jgraph (see -p for the value). By default, each hash mark will be labeled with its value. Hash and ---- shash are ignored if the axes are logarithmic. ----- shash [float] ----- Make sure there is a hash mark at the point [float] along the axis. The default is set by ----- jgraph if hash = -1. If hash is set by the user, ---- shash is defaulted to the min value of the axis. ----- --- mhash [integer] ------- Put [integer] minor hash marks between the above ------- hash marks. Default = -1. If this value equals 0, then there will be no minor hash marks. If this value is negative, then the value will be chosen by jgraph (see -p for the value). precision [integer] ------- hash format token - ----- These control how jgraph formats the automatic hash labels. The user shouldn't have to worry SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 8 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) about these values, except in extreme cases. Jgraph uses printf to format the labels. If hash format is ``f'' (the default), then the value - of a hash label is printed with printf("%.*f", precision, value). Other valid hash format values are ``G'', ``g'', ``E'', - and ``e''. ``G'' is a good generic format which con- verts to scientific notation if the value becomes too big or too small. If the precision is negative, then jgraph chooses a default: For ``g'' and ``G'', the default is 6. For ``e'' and ``E'', the default is 0, and for ``f'', jgraph tries to determine a reasonable default. Please read the man page of prinf(1) for a complete description of how it formats floating point numbers. label Edit the label of this axis (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS). By default, the label is in font ``Times-Bold'', and has a font size of 10. If the user doesn't change any of the plotting attributes of the label, jgraph chooses an appropriate place for the axis label. draw at [float] - ----- Draw the axis line at this point on the other axis. The default is usually the other axis's min, --- however if hash scale is positive (see hash scale ---------- ---------- under ADVANCED AXIS EDITING), it will be the other axis's max. --- nodraw Do not draw the axis, the hash marks or any labels. This is useful for plotting points with no axes, and for overlaying graphs on top of one another with no clashes. This is equivalent to no draw axis, no draw axis label, ------------ ------------------ no draw hash marks, and no draw hash labels. ------------------ ------------------- draw Cancels the effect of nodraw. Default = draw. ------ ---- This is equivalent to draw axis, draw axis label, --------- --------------- draw hash marks, and draw hash labels. --------------- ---------------- grid lines - no grid lines - - Grid lines specifies to plot a grid line at each ---------- major hash mark on this axis. The default is no grid lines. ------------- mgrid lines - SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 9 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) no mgrid lines - - Mgrid lines specifies to plot a grid line at each ----------- minor hash mark on this axis. The default is no mgrid lines. -------------- CURVE EDITING COMMANDS These commands act on the current curve as chosen by newcurve or curve (see GRAPH EDITING COMMANDS). Curve -------- ----- editing terminates when a graph or top-level command is given. pts [{float} {float}]* ----- ----- This sets the points to plot in this curve. The first float is the x value, and the second float ----- ----- is the y value of the point. Points are plotted in the order specified. This command stops read- ing points when a non-float is given. The user can specify this command multiple times within a curve -- each time, simply more points are added to the curve. x epts [{float} {float} {float} {float}]* - ----- ----- ----- ----- y epts [{float} {float} {float} {float}]* - ----- ----- ----- ----- This allows the user to specify points and ``con- fidence values'' (otherwise known as ``error bars''). The first two floats specify the x and y ------ values of the point, as above. If x epts is - specified, then the second two floats specify ------ range or confidence values for the x value of the point. Error bars will be printed to each of these x values (using the original point's y value) from the original point. Similarly, y epts specifies ------ range or confidence values for the y value of the point. pts x epts and y epts can all be inter- --- ------ ------ mixed. marktype This sets the kind of mark that is plotted for this curve. Valid marks are: circle, box, dia- ------ --- ---- mond, triangle, x, cross, ellipse, xbar, ybar, ---- -------- - ----- ------- ---- ---- text, postscript, eps, none, and variants of gen- ---- ---------- --- ---- ---- eral. Most of these are self-explanatory, except ---- for the last few: Xbar makes the curve into a bar graph with the ---- bars going to the x axis. Ybar has the bars going ---- to the y axis. Text lets the user plot text instead of a mark. ---- The text is editted as a label (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS) immediately following the text command. ---- The x and y fields of the label have special mean- ings here: They define where the label is to be printed in relation to the curve points. For SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 10 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) example, if they are both 0, the label will be printed directly on the curve points. If x is 1.0 and y is -1.0, then the label will be printed one unit to the right and one unit below the curve points (units are units of the x and y axes). Default label values are 0 for x and y, and center justification. Postscript: See the postscript token below. ---------- ---------- Eps: See the eps token below. --- --- None means that no mark will be plotted (this is ---- useful for drawing lines). There are four types of general marks, which ------- work using the gmarks command described below. ------ The four marktypes are general, general nf, ------- ---------- general bez, and general bez nf. ----------- -------------- By default, a new mark is chosen for each curve. marksize [float] [float] ----- ----- This sets the size of the mark. The first [float] ----- is the width of the mark, and the second is the height. Units are those of the x and y axes respectively, unless that axis is logarithmic, in which case the units are inches. Negative mark- sizes are allowed (e.g. a negative height will flip a triangle mark). The default mark size can -------- be determined using the -p option of jgraph mrotate [float] ----- This allows the user to rotate the mark [float] ----- degrees. Default is zero. gray [float] ----- color [float float float] ----- ----- ----- These specify either the grayness of the curve or its color. Values for gray should be from 0 ---- (black) to 1 (white). Values for color should ----- also be from 0 to 1. They are RGB values, and thus define the amount of red, green and blue in the curve respectively. Specifying color nulli- fies the gray value, and vice versa. The default is gray 0 ---- - fill [float] ----- cfill [float float float] ----- ----- ----- This sets the filling of marks which define an area to fill (e.g. box, circle, xbar). fill --- ------ ---- ---- defines a gray value, and cfill defines a color ----- value (see gray and color above for a description ---- ----- of the units). The default is fill 0 (black). ---- - pattern token [float] ----- ----- This defines the how the mark is to be filled. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 11 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) Token may be solid (the default), stripe, or ----- ----- ------ estripe. If solid, then the float is ignored, and ------- ----- ----- the mark is completely filled in with either the gray value defined by fill or the color value ---- defined by cfill. If stripe, then the mark will ----- ------ be filled with stripes of either the gray value defined by fill or the color defined by cfill. ---- ----- The stripes will be rotated by float degrees. ----- Estripe differs from stripe only in that stripe ------- ------ ------ draws stripes on a white background, while estripe ------- simply draws the stripes on an empty background. poly nopoly pfill [float] ----- pcfill [float float float] ----- ----- ----- ppattern token [float] ----- ----- Poly allows the user to make jgraph treat the ---- curve as a closed polygon (or in the case of a bezier, a closed bezier curve). pfill, pcfill and ----- ------ ppattern specify the filling of the polygon, and -------- work like fill, cfill and pattern above. The ---- ----- ------- default is nopoly. ------ gmarks [{float} {float}]* ----- ----- Gmarks is a way for the user to define custom ------ marks. For each mark on (x,y), Each pair of - - {float x}, {float y}, will define a point on the ------- ------- mark (x + (float x * marksize x / 2), y + (float y ------- ---------- ------- * marksize y / 2)). ---------- Thus, for example, the box mark could be defined --- as gmarks -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 1 -1 marktype general The marktypes general, general nf, general bez, and ------- ---------- ----------- general bez nf, allow the gmarks points to define a -------------- closed polygon, a line, a closed bezier curve and a regular bezier curve respectively (the ``nf'' stands for ``non-filled''). postscript : {string} ------ postscript {token} ----- This allows the user to enter direct postscript as a mark. It automatically sets the marktype to postscript. If a string is entered, then that ---------- string is used as the mark in the jgraph output. If a token is entered, then that token must stand for a filename, which will be copied to the output once for every mark. The postscript will be set up so that when the string or file is put to the SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 12 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) output, (0, 0) of the the axes is in the middle of the mark, it is rotated by mrotate degrees, and ------- scaled by (marksize x / 2), marksize y / 2). ---------- ---------- Thus, the box mark could be defined as: --- postscript : 1 setlinewidth -1 -1 moveto -1 1 lineto \ 1 1 lineto 1 -1 lineto -1 -1 lineto stroke If the marksize x is defined to be (0, 0), then jgraph ---------- does no scaling. This is useful when the postscript has strings, and the user does not want the strings to be scaled. eps {token} ----- This allows the user to include an encapsulated postscript file and treat it as a mark. It automatically sets the marktype to eps. The file --- will be scaled so that the bounding box is mark- ----- size units. Among other things, this allows the ---- user to include whole jgraph files as marks. Please see ad.jgr, explained in HINTS AND EXAMPLE GRAPHS below for an example of this feature. larrows rarrows nolarrows norarrows Rarrows specifies to draw an arrow at the end of ------- every line segment in the curve. Larrows specifies ------- to draw an arrow at the beginning of every line segment. The size of the arrows can be changed by using asize. The default is nolarrows and norar- ----- --------- ------ rows. ---- Arrows always go exactly to the point specified, with the exception of when the marktype is ``cir- cle''. In this case, the arrow goes to the edge of the circle. larrow rarrow nolarrow norarrow This is analgous to the above, except that with larrow, the only arrow drawn is to the beginning ------ of the first segment in the curve, and with rar- ---- row, the only arrow drawn is to the end of the --- last segment. asize [float] [float] ----- ----- This sets the size of the arrows. The first [float] controls the arrow's width. Its units are ----- those of the x-axis. The second [float] controls ----- SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 13 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) the arrow's height. It is in the units of the y- axis. Use the -p option of jgraph to see the default values. afill [float] ----- afill [float] ----- apattern token [float] ----- ----- These control the grayness or color of arrowheads. Afill, acfill and apattern work in the same way as ----- ------ -------- fill, cfill and pattern described above. The ---- ----- ------- default is afill 0 (black). ----- - linetype [token] ----- This defines the type of the line connecting the points. Valid entries are solid, dotted, dashed, ----- ------ ------ longdash, dotdash, dotdotdash, dotdotdashdash, -------- ------- ---------- -------------- general, and none. The default is none. General ------- ---- ---- ------- lets the user define his own linetype using the glines command described below. Points are con- ------ nected in the order in which they are inserted using the pts command. --- glines [float]* ----- This lets the user specify the exact dashing of a line. The format is as in postscript -- the first number is the length of the first dash, the second is the length of the space after the first dash, etc. For example, dotdash could be defined as ------- ``glines 5 3 1 3''. ------ linethickness [float] ----- This defines the line thickness (in absolute postscript units) of the connecting line. Default = 1.0. bezier nobezier Bezier specifies to use the curve's points to ------ define successive bezier curves. The first point is the starting point. The next two are control points for the bezier curve and the next point is the ending point. If there is another bezier, this ending point is also the beginning point of the next curve. The next two points are again control points, and the next point is the ending point. Thus, a bezier must have a total of (3n + 1) points, where n is at least 1. In bezier curves, marks and arrows only apply to every third point. Nobezier is the default. -------- clip This specifies that this curve will be clipped -- SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 14 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) that is, no points outside of the of axes will be plotted. noclip This turns off clipping. If clipping was speci- fied for the entire graph, then noclip has no ------ effect. Noclip is the default. ------ label This edits the label of this curve for the pur- posed of drawing a legend. (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS and LEGEND EDITING COMMANDS). Unless the legend entry is custom, setting any label attri- ------ bute except for the text itself will have no effect. LABEL EDITING COMMANDS The following commands are used for editing labels. Unless stated otherwise, the defaults are written with each command. Label editing terminates when one of these tokens is not given. : {string} ------ This sets the string of the label. If no string is set, the label will not be printed. x [float] ----- y [float] ----- This sets the x or y coordinate of the label. Units are the units of the x and y axes respec- tively. font [token] ----- This sets the font. Default is usually ``Times- Roman''. fontsize [float] ----- This sets the fontsize in points. Default is usu- ally 9. linesep [float] ----- This sets the distance between lines in multilined labels. Units are points. The default is the fontsize. hjl hjc hjr These set the horizontal justification to left, center, and right, respectively. Default = hjc. --- vjt vjc SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 15 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) vjb These set the vertical justification to top center, and bottom, respectively. Default = vjb. --- rotate [float] ----- This will rotate the string [float] degrees. The ----- point of rotation is defined by the vj and hj com- -- -- mands. For example, to rotate 90 degrees about the center of a string, one would use vjc hjc --- --- rotate 90. ------ -- lgray [float] ----- lcolor [float float float] ----- ----- ----- These control the color or the grayness of the label. It works just as gray and color do for ---- ----- curves and axes. The default depends on the con- text. For example, for strings and the title, the default is black. For axis labels and hash labels, the default is the color of the axis. For text as marks, the default is the curve color. LEGEND EDITING COMMANDS These commands allow the user to alter the appearance of the legend. Legends are printed out for each curve having a non-null label. The legend entries are printed out in the order of ascending curve numbers. Legend editing terminates when a graph command or top level command is issued. In earlier versions of jgraph (before version 8.0), the characteristics of each legend entry were set in the label portion of the entry's curve. Thus, for example, if you wanted each entry's fontsize to be 18, you had to set it in each entry's curve. Now, default legend entry characteristics are set using the defaults key- -------- word. Unless a custom legend is specified, these ------ default values override any values set in the entry's curve. Thus, to get all entries to have a fontsize of 18, it must be set using defaults fontsize 18. -------- -------- -- If legend editing seems cryptic, try the following example: newgraph newcurve marktype box linetype solid label : Solid box pts 0 0 1 1 2 1 3 1 newcurve marktype circle linetype dotted label : Dotted circle pts 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 newcurve marktype x linetype dashed label : Dashed x pts 0 2 1 3 2 3 3 3 legend defaults font Times-Italic fontsize 14 x 1.5 y 3.5 hjc vjb SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 16 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) The legend of this graph should be centered over the top of the graph, and all legend entries should be 14pt Times- Italic. on offR These turn printing of the legend on and off. The default is on (but, of course, if there are no curve labels defined, there will be no legend). linelength [float] ----- This sets the length of the line printed in front of legend entries corresponding to curves which have lines. Units are those of the x axis, unless the x axis is logarithmic, in which case the units are inches. The default may be gotten using the -p option. linebreak [float] ----- This sets the vertical distance between individual legend entries. Units are those of the y axis, unless the y axis is logarithmic, in which case the units are inches. The default may be gotten using the -p option. midspace [float] ----- This sets one of two things. If any of the legend entries have lines in them, then this sets the distance between the end of the line and the legend entry text. Otherwise, this sets the dis- tance between center of the mark and the legend entry text. Units are those of the x axis, unless the x axis is logarithmic, in which case the units are inches. The default may be gotten using the -p option. defaults This lets the user change the attributes of all legend entries. The defaults are editted as a label (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS). A few of the label fields have special meanings: The : field is ignored. The x and y fields define where the - - label will be printed. The hj and vj fields -- -- define the justification of the legend about the x - and y point. Thus, if x is 10 and y is 15, and - - - hjc vjb are specified, then the legend will be --- --- centered horizontally about x=10, and the bottom of the legend will be placed on y=15. This is analagous to label plotting. The rotate field is ------ also analagous to label plotting. Defaults are as follows. Rotate is 0. font is ------ ---- ``Times-Roman'' and fontsize is 9. The color is -------- SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 17 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) black. Default justification is hjl and vjc. The --- --- default x and y values are set according to the hj - - -- and vj fields. See the -p option. -- left right ----- These will automatically produce a legend to the left or the right of the graph. Left is equivalent ---- to defaults hjr vjc and right is equivalent to -------- --- --- ----- defaults hjl vjc. -------- --- --- top bottom These will automatically produce a legend on the top or the bottom of the graph. Top is equivalent --- to defaults hjl vjb -------- --- --- and bottom is equivalent to defaults hjl vjt. ------ -------- --- --- x [float] ----- y [float] ----- These are included mainly for backward compatabil- ity to earlier versions of jgraph. Setting x and - y is equivalent to ``defaults x float y float hjl - ----- ----- vjt'' custom This lets the user control where each individual legend entry goes. The values of the defaults -------- fields are ignored, and instead, the values of the curve's labels are used. All justifications have defined results, except for hjc. Similarly, rota- --- tion other than 0 is likely to produce bad effects. ADVANCED AXIS EDITING These are more advanced commands for editing an axis. This includes drawing explicit hash marks and labels, moving the hash marks, axes, and labels, not drawing the hash marks, labels, axes, etc. gray [float] ----- color [float float float] ----- ----- ----- These specify either the grayness of the axis or its color. Values for gray should be from 0 ---- (black) to 1 (white). Values for color should ----- also be from 0 to 1. They are RGB values, and thus define the amount of red, green and blue in the axis respectively. Specifying color nullifies the gray value, and vice versa. The default is gray 0. These values affect every part of the ---- - axis: the label, the hash marks and labels, the axis line and the grid lines. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 18 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) grid gray [float] - ----- grid color [float float float] - ----- ----- ----- mgrid gray [float] - ----- mgrid color [float float float] - ----- ----- ----- These allow the user to define the grayness or color of the gridlines and the mgridlines to be different from those of the axis lines. The default grid gray and grid color is the same as --------- ---------- the axis's gray and color. The default mgrid gray ---- ----- ---------- and mgrid color is the same as grid gray and ----------- --------- grid color. ---------- hash at [float] - ----- Draw a hash mark at this point. No label is made for this hash mark. mhash at [float] - ----- Draw a minor hash mark at this point. hash label - Edit a hash label (see HASH LABEL EDITING COM- MANDS). hash labels - Edit the default characteristics of the hash labels. This is so that the user can change the fontsize, justification, etc., of the hash labels. Editing hash labels is just like editing normal ----------- labels (see LABEL EDITING COMMANDS), except that the :, x, and y values are all ignored. Defaults - - for hash labels are as follows: Fontsize=9, Font=``Times-Roman'', Justification is dependent on whether it is the x or y axis and whether hash scale is positive or negative. ---------- hash scale [float] - ----- This is to change the size and orientation of the hash marks. Default = -1.0. Changing this to -2.0 will double the length of the hash marks. Changing this to +1.0 will make the hash marks come above or to the right of the axis. draw hash marks at [float] - - - ----- By default, the hash marks are drawn either above or below the axis. This command changes where they are drawn. Hash scale still determines ---------- whether they are drawn above or below this point, and their size. draw hash labels at [float] - - - ----- By default, the hash labels are drawn either above or below the hash marks (again, this is dependent SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 19 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) on hash scale). This command changes where they ---------- are drawn. Justification and fontsize, etc., can be changed with the hash labels command. ----------- auto hash marks - - no auto hash marks - - - This toggles whether or not jgraph will automati- cally create hash marks according to hash, mhash ---- ----- and shash (or log base and mhash for logarithmic ----- -------- ----- axes). The default is auto hash marks. --------------- auto hash labels - - no auto hash labels - - - This toggles whether or not jgraph will automati- cally create hash labels for the auto hash marks. --------------- Default = auto hash labels. ---------------- draw axis - no draw axis - - This toggles whether or not the axis line is drawn. Default = draw axis. --------- draw axis label - - no draw axis label - - - This toggles whether or not the axis label (as editted by the label command) is drawn. Default = ----- draw axis label. --------------- draw hash marks - - no draw hash marks - - - This toggles whether or not the hash marks (both automatic and those created with hash at and ------- mhash at) are drawn. Default = draw hash marks. -------- --------------- draw hash labels - - no draw hash labels - - - This toggles whether or not the hash labels are drawn. Default = draw hash labels. ---------------- HASH LABEL EDITING COMMANDS Hash labels are simply strings printed along the appropriate axis. As a default, they are printed at the place denoted by the most recent hash at or ------- mhash at for this axis, but this can be changed by the -------- at command. If there has been no hash at or mhash at, -- ------- -------- then an at command must be given, or there will be an -- error. Hash editing terminates when either one of these commands is not given. : {string} ------ This sets the string of the hash label (see Strings above under THE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE). SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 20 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) at [float] ----- This sets the location of the hash label along the current axis. FUNCTION PLOTTING AND OTHER NON-INHERENT FEATURES Although jgraph doesn't have any built-in functions for interpolation or function plotting, both can be effected in jgraph with a little outside help: Function plotting With the include and shell statement, it's easy to ------- ----- create a file of points of a function with a c or awk program, and include it into a graph. See the section HINTS AND EXAMPLE GRAPHS for an example of a sin graph produced in this manner. Point interpolation Point interpolation is essentially the same as function plotting, and therefore is left out of jgraph. The UNIX spline(1) routine is a simple way to get interpolation between points. See bailey.jgr described below. Maybe in a future release. HINTS AND EXAMPLE GRAPHS Jgraph should be able to draw any kind of scatter/line/bar graph that a user desires. To embellish the graph with extra text, axes, lines, etc., it is helpful to use copy- ----- graph. The following example graphs show a few examples of ----- different features of jgraph. They should be in the direc- tory JGRAPH DIR. - - acc.jgr is a simple bar graph. Acc.tex is also included to show how one can include the output of jgraph in a LaTeX file. To get this to work, you might have to substitute the entire pathname of the file acc.jps in the acc.tex file. - g8.jgr is a simple graph with some plotted text. - g8col.jgr shows how to produce a color background -- it is the same as g8.jgr only all on a yellow background. - ebars.jgr is a simple graph with error bars. - sin.jgr shows how a sin function can be plotted using a simple c program to produce the sin wave. Moreover, this file shows a use of copygraph to plot an extra x and y axis at the 0 --------- point. - sin1.jgr is a further extension of sin.jgr only with one x and y axis at 0, but with the axis labels at the left and the bottom of the graph. - sin2.jgr is a different sin wave with a logarithmic x axis. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 21 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) - sin3.jgr shows how a bizarre effect can be gotten by sort- ing the points in a different manner. - bailey.jgr shows how to use the UNIX spline(1) routine to get interpolation between points. - gpaper.jgr shows how you can get jgraph to easily produce graph paper. - g9n10.jgr contains two graphs with complicated legends. It contains a description of how the legend was created. - ex1.jgr and ex2.jgr are two examples which were figures 1 and two in an extended abstract for a paper about jgraph. - mab2.jgr is a graph created by Matt Blaze which shows how a complicated output graph can be quite concisely and simply stated. In this graph, the x axis is a time line. It shows usage of the hash label and hash labels commands, as well as ---------- ----------- displaying how jgraph lets you extract data from output files with awk. - nr.jgr is an example of a rather complicated bar graph with stripe-filled bars. It was created by Norman Ramsey. - hypercube.jgr shows an interesting use of jgraph for picture-drawing. - ad.jgr is an example which shows how one can include jgraph output as jgraph input. The file uses the eps token --- to include cube.jgr, a jgraph drawing of an Intel hypercube, and disk.jgr, a jgraph drawing of a disk, in a picture. - alb.jgr is another use of jgraph for picture drawing. This file was created by an awk script which Adam Buchsbaum wrote to draw trees and graphs. - wortman.jgr is a neat graph of processor utilization writ- ten by Dave Wortman for SIGPLAN '92. It was created by an awk script, which processed the data and emitted the jgraph. To view these graphs, use jgraph -P, and view the resulting output file with gs, or a similar postscript viewer. To -- make a hard copy of these graphs, pipe the output of jgraph -P directly to lpr. --- USING JGRAPH TO DRAW PICTURES As hypercube.jgr and alb.jgr show, jgraph can be used as a postscript preprocessor to make drawings. There are two advantages using jgraph to draw pictures instead of using standard drawing tools like xfig, figtool, or idraw. The ---- ------- ----- SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 22 jgraph(1) User Commands jgraph(1) first is that with jgraph, you know exactly where strings, lines, boxes, etc, will end up, because you plot them expli- citly. The second advantage is that for iterative drawings, with lots of patters, you can combine jgraph with awk or c or any other programming language to get complex output in a simple way. Most what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) drawing tools cannot do this. The major disadvantage of using jgraph to draw pictures is that jgraph is not WYSIWYG. You have to set up axes and plot points, lines and strings. It's all a matter of taste. If you'd like to see some more complex pictures drawn with jgraph, as well as some hints to make picture-drawing easier, send me email (jsp@princeton.edu). EMBEDDING THE OUTPUT IN LATEX I haven't read the manuals, but the way I've been loading these files into LaTeX has been as follows: 1. Toward the beginning of my LaTeX file, I've had ``\input{psfig}'' 2. Where I've wanted my file, I've put: \begin{figure} \centerline{\psfig{figure=<path-name>/<filename-of-jgraph-output>}} \end{figure} Some versions of dvips or dvi2ps work without the path-name. Others require that the path-name be present. 3. After running latex on the file, do lpr -d file.dvi 4. If that doesn't work, try dvips-ing the file and printing the postscript. BUGS Logarithmic axes cannot contain points <= 0. If I have enough complaints to convince me that this is a bug, I'll try to fix it. There is no real way to make the axes such that they decrease from left to right or low to high -- or at least not without writing your own hash labels. There may well be loads of other bugs. Send to jsp@princeton.edu. This is $Revision: 8.3 $. SunOS 5.5.1 Last change: 23