gnuplot 5.4 An Interactive Plotting Program ‘Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley Version 5.4 organized by: Ethan A Merritt and many others Major contributors (alphabetic order) Christoph Bersch, Hans-Bernhard Broker, John Campbell, Robert Cunningham, David Denholm, Gershon Elber, Roger Fearick, Carsten Grammes, Lucas Hart, Lars Hecking, Péter Juhasz, Thomas Koenig, David Kotz, Ed Kubaitis, Russell Lang, Timothée Lecomte, Alexander Lehmann, Jérdme Lodewyek, Alexander Mai, Bastian Marki Ethan A Merritt, Petr Mikultk, Daniel Sebald, Carsten Steger, Shigeharu Takeno, Tom Tkacik, Jos Van der Woude, James R. Van Zandt, Alex Woo, Johannes Zellner © 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004 Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley Copyright © 2004 - 2022 various authors Mailing list for comments: gnuplot-info@l ists. sourceforge.net Web site and issue trackers: http: //sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot This manual was originally prepared by Dick Crawford Version 5.4 (September 2022)2 gnuplot 5.4 CONTENTS Contents I Gnuplot Copyright Introduction Se \g-assistance New features Features introduced in version 5.4 Support for -bit integer arithmetic Voxel grids New plot st New data pre-processing filters New commands and command options New terminals and terminal options Pixmaps as objects Week-date time f Other new features Changes Features introduced in version 5.2 Now plot styles and style options New data pre-processing filters Polar mode improvements and extensions Nonlinear coordinates systems New commands and command options New data type “array Now terminals and terminal options Other new Features introduced in version 5.0 Differences between versions 4 and 5 Deprecated syntax De 10s and Online Examples Batch/Interactive Operation Command line options F amples 21 21 21 22 23 23 23 23 23 Pry a 25 25 25 6 26 26 26 2m ca 7 7 7 28 28 29 30 31 31 31 31CONTENTS gnuplot 5.4 Canvas size Command-line-editing Comments Coordinates Datastrings Enhanced text mode Escape sequences Environment Expressions Complex arithmetic Constants Punetions Elliptic integrals Random number generator Using specifier fumetions Column Colurmmhead Stringcolumn ‘Timecolumn Valid Value Counting and extracting words Operators Unary Binary ‘Ternary Summation Gnuplot-defined variables User-defined vaviables and functions Arrays Fonts Cairo (pafeairo, pngeairo, epscairo, wxt terminals) Gd (png, gif, pes, sel terminals) Postscript (also encapsulated postscript *.eps) 32 32 33 33 34 a4 36 36 37 7 7 38 40 40 40 aL aL 41 41 a 41 aL 2 2 42 43 44 ay 45 45 46 46 av aT