[Swift-commit] r8249 - usertools/plotter

[wozniak at ci.uchicago.edu]

Author: wozniak
Date: 2014-09-15 10:12:54 -0500 (Mon, 15 Sep 2014)
New Revision: 8249

Modified:
   usertools/plotter/README.txt
Log:
More docs


Modified: usertools/plotter/README.txt
===================================================================
--- usertools/plotter/README.txt	2014-09-12 14:44:18 UTC (rev 8248)
+++ usertools/plotter/README.txt	2014-09-15 15:12:54 UTC (rev 8249)
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 by using the rich feature set in JFreeChart and providing a simple,
 scriptable user interface.
 
+It should be easy to extend the plotter to use additional JFreeChart features.
+
 == Installation
 
 Just check out from SVN and build with Ant:
@@ -58,10 +60,9 @@
   (Cf. Java +Double.parseDouble()+.)
 * True/false may be +true+ or +false+.
   (Cf. Java +Boolean.parseBoolean()+.)
-* Some properties are set on a per-file basis.  In this case, part of
+* Some properties are set on a per-data-file basis.  In this case, part of
   the key is the file name.
 
-
 +title+:: Set a plot title.
 +xlabel,ylabel+:: Set labels for the X and Y axes.
 +width,height+:: Set the width, height of the output EPS in pixels.
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
 Defaults to an auto-selection made by JFreeChart.
 +bw+:: If true, use black and white only.  Default: +false+.
 +legend.enabled+:: If true, show a legend.  Default: +true+.
-+axis.x,axis.y+:: May be +normal+ or +logarithmic+.
++axis.x,axis.y+:: May be +normal+, +logarithmic+, or +date+.  For +date+, provide date data as decimal milliseconds since the Unix Epoch.  Default: +normal+.
 Default: +normal+.
 +label._filename_+:: Set the legend label for the data series from
 file +_filename_+.
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@
 
 ----
 convert my_output.eps my_output.png
+convert my_output.eps my_output.pdf
 ----
 
 == Data
@@ -109,10 +111,11 @@
 
 8 0
 # This is a comment
-1 7 # This is also a comment
+1 7,000,000.1 # This is also a comment
 ----
 
 As shown, empty lines and +#+ comments are accepted.
+Commas are also automatically stripped.
 
 == Plotter options