The xyplotter code allows us to plot data sets from multiple table files. In Aug2020 I added the capability to plot text strings and I refer to this (for now) as xyplotter2. You can see an example of how to plot every type of symbol with xyplotter2. This example was used to make the plot in the figure below. Note that I usually build my initial plot with the xyplotter_auto routine. Becasue the "text" and "arrotext" plot types were added long after the development of most of my plot routines, these plotting types are not available in xyplotter_auto . You can add these with runs of xyplotter2.

This is a sample plot made using xyplotter2. It shows every type of symbol I can make with this code, including plotting text strings. Note that I have changed the size of the text labele when I changed from plotting "text: to "arrowtext". See the example of how to plot every type of symbol with xyplotter2. The real plooting is actually done with the matplotlib routine .../codes/python/plotting/pxy_SM_plot2.py.

The development of xyplotter and detailed discussions of the routines that drive it can be found in a general discussion of plotting data with table files. In this cuurent doc I give the basic calling syntax for xyplotter followed by some illustrative examples. The basic ide here is that we must have prepared two basic input file: one that describe what table files are to be plotted (and how), and the second describes the axis scaling and labeling as well as a title for the plot. We'll give some sample calls first to demonstrate the synatx:

% xyplotter 
Usage: xyplotter List.1 Axes.1
arg1 - Name of basic xyplotter input file  
arg2 - Name of axis information file  

% xyplotter --help
xyplotter:
  Build plot files from ASCII table files and process them 
  with the xyp_SM_plot.py routine. 

 

I wrote a script named mpl that provides a brief summary of point type a color properties.

Here we'll plot X,Y data sets pulled from multiple table files. You can use the link here to grab the Ex1 tar file. When the tarball is downloaded (probably to your Downloads directory) you can unpack it and descend into the example directory and run xyplotter. You can read about all of the steps for this here.

Here we'll plot X,Y data sets pulled from multiple table files. For the first set I use errorbars. You can use the link here to grab the Ex2 tar file. When the tarball is downloaded (probably to your Downloads directory) you can unpack it and descend into the example directory and run xyplotter. You can read about all of the steps for this here.