X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mailer: 21.4 (patch 20) "Double Solitaire" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 10 I) From: "Dr. Volker Zell" Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.0-1 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:12:48 +0200 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: ============ Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and is easily extensible to include new devices. [ The 'GNU' in gnuplot is NOT related to the Free Software Foundation, the naming is just a coincidence (and a long story; see the gnuplot FAQ for details). Thus gnuplot is not covered by the Gnu copyleft, but rather by its own copyright statement, included in all source code files.] Gnuplot handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Surfaces can be plotted as a mesh fitting the specified function, floating in the 3-d coordinate space, or as a contour plot on the x-y plane. For 2-d plots, there are also many plot styles, including lines, points, lines with points, error bars, and impulses (crude bar graphs). Graphs may be labeled with arbitrary labels and arrows, axes labels, a title, date and time, and a key. The interface includes command-line editing and history on most platforms. CYGWIN NEWS: ============ o Update to latest upstream release. o Does not depend on tetex-bin anymore. gnuplot NEWS: ============= New features, changes and fixes since gnuplot version 4.0 ========================================================= * NEW autogenerated read-only variables prefixed GPVAL_ and "show variables all" * NEW Japanese language documentation - FAQ and User Manual * NEW multi-platform and interactive wxWidgets terminal * NEW windows terminal supports enhanced text mode * NEW support for placement of individual rectangles within plot or canvas * NEW command "set style increment user" allows customization of default lines * NEW commands raise and lower * NEW y and y2 axis label rotation can be explicitly controlled (2D plots only) * NEW {no}enhanced flag can be applied to individual labels * NEW suboption 'set pm3d interpolate' for bilinear interpolation of surfaces * NEW 3D plots can read RGB color triples as part of input data * NEW write command history file also for gnuplot's readline * NEW more versatile key placement and arrangement * NEW 'splot x*y with pm3d' no longer requires prior 'set pm3d' * NEW store a sequence of plots to an animated gif (requires libgd > 2.0.28) * NEW multi-byte font support in x11, controlled by the locale setting LC_CTYPE * NEW control decimal sign conventions using locale setting LC_NUMERIC * NEW pstex, pslatex and epslatex terminals share functionality with postscript * NEW suboptions "set pm3d corners2color min|max" * NEW suboption "set pm3d depthorder" does hidden-surface removal (sort of) * NEW linetype colors via "lt {palette {frac | cb }}" * NEW linetype colors via "lt {rgbcolor {"name" | "#RRGGBB"}}" * NEW palette and rgb linetype colors apply to all 2D and 3D plot elements * NEW user defined variables can contain strings * NEW expression evaluation can manipulate and return strings * NEW built-in string functions sprintf, gprintf, substr, strstrt, word, words * NEW built-in string function system("shell command") * NEW command line macro expansion @ * NEW automatic variable $# expanded to number of arguments after "call" * NEW reading of (almost) arbitrary image binary files * NEW plot styles "with image" and "with rgbimage" * NEW plot style "with labels" reads text data along with X/Y/Z coordinates * NEW plot style "with histograms" creates clustered or stacked histograms * NEW auto-layout of multiplot using "set multiplot layout , " * NEW variant of plot "with filledcurves" that fills the area between two curves * NEW variant of "with filledcurves" that fills only above or below the curve * NEW using options {x|y|z}ticlabels() * NEW option to read plot title from data file: set key autotitle columnheader * NEW command 'set termoption ' changes single property of current terminal * NEW png driver supports antialiasing and TrueColor images * NEW encoding koi8-u * NEW plot style "with vectors" applies to both 2D and 3D plots * NEW plot style "with points" can read variable point size from input file * NEW "set tics" can change most settings for {x|y|z|cb}tics at once * NEW tic scale can be set per axis using "set {x|y|z|cb}tics scale" * CHANGE history file is written by default * CHANGE PostScript prolog and character encoding files now maintained separately * CHANGE Placement of z-axis label in 3D plots is now equivalent to x and y axes * CHANGE "set ticsscale" is deprecated, use "set tics scale" instead * CHANGE gnuplot on x11 has mousing always enabled on startup * CHANGE 'set datafile fortran' is now required in order to read D or Q constants * CHANGE let the string in '{s}plot ... notitle "string"' be silently ignored * CHANGE libgd versions 2.0.28+ support GIF images as well as PNG/JPEG * CHANGE remove old (non-libgd) GIF and PNG drivers * CHANGE X-resource gnuplot*ctrlq:on requires q to kill plot window * CHANGE X-resource gnuplot*exportselection:off disables plot->clipboard export * CHANGE prefer use of offset keyword in 'set [xyz]label "foo" offset -1,-1' * CHANGE 'set table "outfile"; ...; unset table' replaces 'set term table' * CHANGE 'defined(foo)' is deprecated; new syntax is 'exists("foo")' * FIXED empty datafiles are not a fatal error * FIXED setenv GNUTERM now works for png, jpeg, and gif drivers * FIXED PostScript output can be restricted to Level 1 compatible features * FIXED emf output is compatible with MSWin XP SP 2 * FIXED limit size of X11 requests to half the maximum allowed by the X display * FIXED arrowheads drawn in solid lines even if the shaft is dotted (PostScript) * FIXED estimate true effective length of strings in enhanced text mode * FIXED clipping of filled curves INSTALLATION: ============= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up the above mentioned package from the 'Graphics' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. 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