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GNU General Public License

Copyright (C) 2010 Xavi Gonzavo xavi.gonzalvo@gmail.com

All programs in this directory and subdirectories are published 
under the GNU General Public License as described below.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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Devontikz will generate a Latex code based on Tikz in order to 
generate bar graphs.

More information about Tikz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ

The input file is a text file containing the data for each bar. The
format is similar to the one used in similar tooks:

http://www.burningcutlery.com/derek/bargraph/

You can see an example in the folder "Test".


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Linux
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Use Qmake from Qt version > 3.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmake)

  cd <basepath>
  qmake; make

Win32
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You can use Visual Studio project file:

  devon.vcproj

or create your own including all "cpp" and "h" files.

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To see the help:

   devontikz -h


The simplest use is to load a data file and specify the output 
Latex file:

  devontikz -d Test/test.data -o Test/test.tex
  
  
NOTE: You must specify the following package in your Tex file:

  \usepackage{tikz}
  \usetikzlibrary{arrows,shapes}  % use any other configuration
  			          % that suits you


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0.5 Beta
31st May 2010