Re: [Gnuplot-info] Multiple sources on a common X axis

[Alan C. <ala...@gm...>]

> It took me quite some time to figure out a few things. This might keep
> some people away from using gnuplot.

Who takes time to read documentation?  I mean, I have, but my best
resource for looking up how to do something is to look at how I did it
a year ago.  That's true not only for Gnuplot.

One thing that might help is to somewhere on a web page have tiny
(320x200 or so) thumbnails of different plot types that are linked to
maybe example plot scripts and/or into the documentation where it
talks about using some feature.  I thought Gnuplot had a "concept
index", something I use does, in addition to a normal index.

But that's part of my point, if you use a few dozen different programs
and each one has hundreds of pages of documentation there isn't time
in a lifetime to read it all.  It's good that the documentation
exists, but having maybe a few different ways of finding what you're
looking for in it is good too.  And this seems to be more of a problem
in things written by committees or multiple people or at different
times.  Lazarus for example is potentially a great program with
thousands of pages of documentation spanning a couple decades but you
can't find anything in it.

So I look up how I did it last time.  I use the PDFs and online
documentation too.