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[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: ploticus, libploticus, ploticus-common, ploticus-doc


Ploticus is now available in the Cygwin distribution.  Ploticus is 
command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data.  
Ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation.  With 
ploticus you can use 'prefabs' to quickly create common types of graphs, 
or write scripts to get full control.  Ploticus can make scatter, bar, 
box, range, vector, pie, and venn charts, and offers curve fitting, 
multiple axes and plot areas, legends, and text overlays.  It allows 
significant user control over colors, styles, options and details.  It 
handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities.  
The results can be output to an X11 display or as PNG, JPEG, WBMP, SVG, 
PS, or EPS images.  Ploticus can also generate image maps and mouseover 
labels, for inclusion into Web pages.

Ploticus is divided into four packages in Cygwin:

ploticus:
    Ploticus executable and test suite.  Please note that although the 
    ploticus manual refers to the ploticus executable as 'pl', in Cygwin 
    its name is /usr/bin/ploticus.  (The name /usr/bin/pl is already taken 
    by a file in the SWI-Prolog package.)  You must either substitute 
    'ploticus' in place of 'pl' everywhere, or else create a symlink, e.g. 
    from /usr/local/bin/pl to /usr/bin/ploticus.  This should work just 
    fine as long as you don't have the SWI-Prolog package installed.

libploticus:
    Static library of ploticus functions, for inclusion into C programs.  
    See http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/api.html for documentation of
    the libploticus API.

ploticus-common:
    Prefabs.  ploticus and libploticus both depend on this package, so you
    shouldn't have to explicitly select it for installation.

ploticus-doc:
    HTML documentation, gallery, and examples.  If you don't mind going 
    online to read the ploticus documentation, then you don't need to
    install this package.

Source homepage:    http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/
License:            GPL

Please address questions and bug reports to the Cygwin mailing list 
<cygwin@cygwin.com>.

Andrew E. Schulman

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