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<TITLE>Grace: a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool</TITLE>
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<A NAME="intro">
<BIG>Introduction</BIG>
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<b>Grace</b> is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and
M*tif. Grace runs on practically any version of Unix-like OS. As well, it
has been successfully ported to VMS, OS/2, and Win9*/NT/XP (some minor
functionality may be missing, though).
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Grace is a descendant of <A HREF="http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/"><b>ACE/gr</b></A>, also known as <b>Xmgr</b>.
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<A NAME="features">
<BIG>Features</BIG>
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Grace features at a glance:
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<b>General</b>
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<li>
WYSIWYG design</li>
<li>
Convenient point-and-click graphical user interface</li>
<li>
Precise control of graph features</li>
<li>
True publication quality</li>
<li>
Graphs refresh almost instantly</li>
</ul>
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<td><b>Export Options</b></td>
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<ul>
<li>
Exports high-resolution graphics to (E)PS, PDF, MIF, and SVG formats</li>
<li>
Supports cross-platform PNM, JPEG and PNG formats</li>
<li>
Device-independent Type1 font rastering, including anti-aliasing, ligatures
and kerning</li>
</ul>
<b>Graphing Flexibility</b>
<ul>
<li>
Unlimited number of graphs</li>
<li>
Unlimited number of curves on a graph</li>
<li>
Up to 256 customizable colors</li>
<li>
9 dashed line styles</li>
<li>
32 fill patterns</li>
<li>
10 built-in marker symbols; plus, any character glyph from any font can
be used as a marker</li>
<li>
Color/fill markers</li>
<li>
Text annotations with subscripts, superscripts, mixed fonts, styles and
colors and more complex typesetting</li>
</ul>
<b>Curve Fitting</b>
<ul>
<li>
Linear and nonlinear least-squares</li>
<li>
Calculation and display of residuals</li>
<li>
Arbitrarily complex user-defined fitting functions, including dynamically
loadable C/Fortran/... modules</li>
<li>
Fitting with constraints</li>
<li>
Region restrictions</li>
<li>
Fitting with arbitrary weight functions</li>
</ul>
<b>Analysis Capability</b>
<ul>
<li>
FFT</li>
<li>
Integration and differentiation</li>
<li>
Histograms</li>
<li>
Splines, including Akima splines</li>
<li>
Interpolation and smoothing</li>
<li>
Convolution, correlation, and covariation</li>
<li>
Sorting</li>
</ul>
<b>Data Formats</b>
<ul>
<li>
Unlimited data size; up to six dimensions plus an optional array of strings</li>
<li>
Reads text data input files</li>
<li>
Reads 1D netCDF files</li>
</ul>
<b>Programmability</b>
<ul>
<li>
Built-in programming language</li>
<li>
Math functions manipulate entire array</li>
<li>
Variables, including arrays (1D)</li>
<li>
User-definable functions via loadable modules</li>
<li>
All aspects of plot outlook can be programmed</li>
<li>
Controllable by external programs</li>
</ul>
<b>Customization/Extensibility</b>
<ul>
<li>
Dynamic module loading - write your own C/Fortran/...</li>
<li>
User-defined colors</li>
<li>
User-supplied fonts and encodings</li>
</ul>
<P>
Please refer to the <A HREF="UsersGuide.html">Grace User's Guide</A> for more detailed
description.
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<A NAME="maillists">
<BIG>Mailing lists</BIG>
</A>
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<P>
Grace has two general-purpose mailing lists: <B>grace</B> and
<B>grace-announce</B>. The first one, unmoderated,
serves for general discussions of Grace. You can subscribe to it by sending an email to
<A HREF="mailto:grace-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il">grace-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il</A>
with <EM>no</EM> subject line and <EM>the only</EM> word 'Subscribe' (without quotes, of
course) in the body of the message. You may instead wish to subscribe to the digest of the list by sending
same email to <A HREF="mailto:grace-digest-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il">grace-digest-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il</A>.
The digest is sent once in a three days or when its size exceeds 32K.
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The moderated grace-announce list is for new version or serious bug fix announcements only (which are automatically relayed to
the first mailing list, too).
The address to send subscription requests is
<A HREF="mailto:grace-announce-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il">grace-announce-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il</A>.
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To unsubscribe from a list, same instructions apply, with "Subscribe" being replaced by "Unsubscribe".
<P>
There are <A HREF="http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/maillists/grace/">mailing list archives</A> available for browsing.
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<A NAME="reports">
<BIG>Suggestions and bug reports</BIG>
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<P>
If you found a bug in Grace or wish to suggest some improvements, please do
it <A HREF="http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/w3todo/index.phtml?Pr_name=Grace">on-line</A>.
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<A HREF="http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/">The Grace Homepage</A>
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<SMALL>Web design: Copyleft 1998-2000
<A HREF="mailto:fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il">Evgeny
Stambulchik</A>,<BR>
slightly modified by <a href="mailto:twerner@debian.org">Torsten
Werner</a> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system</SMALL>
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