PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots whose (UTF-8) plot symbols and text are limited in practice only by what Unicode -aware system fonts are installed on a user's computer.

All our Windows users and many of our Unix users build PLplot from source code using our build system that is implemented with CMake following the directions in our wiki.

See src/pllegend.c for a good example of how to document arguments of PLplot functions. Note there are many other files in src without this argument documentation at the present time so there is plenty …

Examples These examples were generated with the pngcairo device and reflect the status of PLplot-5.15.0. Select a thumbnail to view full-size image and source code.

This reference contains complete user documentation for the PLplot plotting software

After PLplot has been configured, built, and installed, you can write code in C or any of the languages that have PLplot bindings to make the desired PLplot calls.

The PLplot C API is composed of a set of drawing functions, all prefixed with "pl", in an effort to prevent namespace collision. However, the prefix "pl" is gratuitous, and in particular is unnecessary in a C++ …

The C computer language is fundamental to PLplot because our core plotting library and our definitive set of standard examples are written in that language, and the remainder of the computer languages …

Jun 1, 2019 · We describe simple use of PLplot in this chapter which includes many cross-references to elements of our common (C) API that use PLplot C types such as PLFLT and PLINT.

The PLplot PLINT type is normally defined as the C fundamental type int32_t, and the PLplot PLFLT type is defined to be one of the two C fundamental types float or double depending on how the C …