SciGraphicaTutorial Manual - Tutorials 1and 2Version 0.8.0Copyright (c) 2001 the SciGraphica documentation groupPermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNUFree Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free SoftwareFoundation; with no Invariant Sections.Tutorial Manual - Tutorials 1and 2ContentsPrefaceTutorial 1: My First Plot...........................................................................31.1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................31.2 My First Worksheet...............................................................................................................................31.3 Plotting My Data.....................................................................................................................................4Tutorial 2: Formatting the Graph............................................................72.1 Introduction72.2 Moving and Resizing the Graph........................................................................................................72.3 The Layer Control Dialog.....................................................................................................................8Page Properties................................................................................................................... ...
SciGraphica Tutorial Manual - Tutorials 1and 2 Version 0.8.0
Copyright (c) 2001 the SciGraphica documentation group Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections.
Tutorial 1: My First Plot 1.1 Introduction This tutorial will show how to input a simple set of data into a workshee M t y n D a at m a e,d create a 2D plot name M d yFirstPlot , input the worksheet data into the 2D plot and finally visualize the data by autoscaling the graph. 1.2 My First Worksheet Although there are much more elaborate ways to input data into SciGraphica, let us start with some "Hello World like stuff. " Start SciGraphica by the command sga (e.g., from some shell window). The program's main window will appearonthescreenFi(gure1). For the first, we do not care about t menu or the button bar, we first try what we can do with the worksheet icon named Data1 which is containe within the tabbed panel. The icon t is highlighted so that by typing so text the name of the worksheet can F i b g e ure 1: sStcairGtraphica'smainwindowjustafterprogram changed. Let us change the . worksheet's name t M o yData . Now, by double-clicking the worksheet icon a worksheet window is opened. Into one column of the worksheet, numbers can be input by just typing the number and pre e s n si t n e g r the button. By doing so, the number is shown in th and the cursor jumps into the cell below. To go justtypeinthenumbersasshowFniignure2. Figure 2: Worksheet MyData after some numbers have been input into the cells. Page3 of 18