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Usage

Daniel Krieg

General usage

Call the extension via Extensions->Render->Inkplot

  • no graph selected: create a new graph
  • (at least) one graph selected: edit this graph

Dialog

The Inkplot dialog contains three elements:

1. Preamble file / Preamble

Select a preamble file from the file dialog. Its contents will be displayed and prepended to your Gnuplot commands.
The path to the preamble file (not its contents) will be stored in the SVG graph object and used when the graph is edited next time.

2. Size and options

Set the size of the graph and the options of the Gnuplot SVG terminal

3. Commands

The Gnuplot commands to be executed, e.g. "plot sin(x)".
See the Gnuplot documentation (http://www.gnuplot.info/) for details.

Supported features:

  • comments with #
  • multi-line mode: distribute long commands over several lines
    • lines are joined if they end with '\'

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Example usage


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