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

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On Friday, 29 July 2016 09:30:30 AM Alan Corey wrote:
> > 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.

      http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/


> 
> 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.
> 
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