[Plplot-general] newbie questions

[Steve F. <st...@ad...>]

I tried looking through the documentation and examples (BTW:  kudos to 
whoever thought of the examples page), but couldn't locate the commands 
for the following functions.  (For what it is worth, I am running plplot 
5.6.1 via the python bindings on linux.)

- I have a set of graphs produced per experimental run that are 4-up pages 
(e.g., plssub( 2, 2)) and 1-up pages (e.g., plssub(1,1)) and would like to 
add a common footer to all pages including such things as a description of 
the experiment and page number.  Neither plmtex() nor plptex() puts text 
relative to a page, but only relative to the individual viewport. 
Likewise, on the 4-up pages, I would like to put a header describing the 4 
graphs.  Ideally, the header/footer should occur prior to plssub() so the 
plssub() call can take into account the remaining available space.

- I have a multitrace line plot and would like to add a trace legend.  I 
can't find the convenience function that would draw a line (including the 
current style, color, width, and markers) next to a given label.

- Some of my graphs take time on the x-axis.  However, it seems that an 
array of strings is not accepted for the labels.  It seems that my 
alternatives are either to use fractions of hours or call plmtex() myself. 
Am I missing anything?

Steve Friedman