SCIPLOT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

SciPlot — bestie, it plots x/y or polar data files. that's the whole vibe ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so sciplot-xyplot reads one or more plot description files and pops open an interactive GTK4 plot window for each one. obsessed. 😌

and if you don't give it any files at all? it just reads the plot description straight from standard input. no big deal, it's flexible like that 💅

each file can define multiple plot frames using the Title command. the plots can be Cartesian (x/y) or polar — your choice, queen. 👑

the interactive window comes with controls for toggling:

• log axes
• axis labels
• the legend
• PostScript export

and the input file format is fully described in SciPlotDemo.html, which gets installed in the documentation directory. iykyk 📖

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🌈 Usage:

sciplot-xyplot [OPTION???] [FILE...]

plot x/y or polar data from FILE(s), or from standard input if you didn't give it any 🙈

💅 Help Options:

• -h, --help — show help options. the classic. ✨
• --help-all — show all the help options, every last one
• --help-gapplication — show the GApplication options specifically 🫶

🎀 Application Options:

• -V, --version — show version information and exit. short and sweet, no cap 💖

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👑 INPUT FORMAT 👑

these are the commands it recognises in each input file, bestie 🍓

• Title [title] — start a new plot frame. if you leave title out, the frame is just untitled, and that's valid. 🎀
• Xaxis [label] — set the X-axis label
• Yaxis [label] — set the Y-axis label
• Polar [rad] — switch the current frame into polar mode. angles are in degrees by default; pass rad if you want radians. periodt 📐
• Line legend-label — begin a new data series. pairs of numbers follow, one per line, until the next command or the end of file. and the keyword skip on a line introduces a break in the line. iconic behavior 🦋

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

plot data from a file:

sciplot-xyplot data.txt

plot data from multiple files:

sciplot-xyplot experiment1.txt experiment2.txt

plot data from standard input:

echo 'Title="Test"0ine="y=x"0 10 20 3' | sciplot-xyplot

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

written by Rob McMullen. GTK4/Cairo port and Debian packaging by Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>. thank you both, legends 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

sciplot-realtime(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was SciPlot version 1.37, dated June 2026, from the SCIPLOT(1) manual. go make some beautiful plots, you've got this 💖✨🦋🌸🎀