useful tricks of xmgrace

https://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~racec/graph.html

Graphic programs

Plots (2D, 3D), graphics

• XmGrace 2D-plots
  • it works on every workstation
  • is started by the xmgrace command
  • can produce EPS and PDF files which can be includes in LaTeX files
  • can produce graphic in graphic
  • advanced topics
    • GraceTMPL (for automation of XMGrace)
    • the plots contain a white background, which makes that the eps file covers some text in LaTeX. You can change this in two ways:
      • Main Menu --> Plot --> Plot appearance --> Page background -->deactivate Fill
        
      • or in LaTeX use \includegraphics* (please, remark the * symbol)
    • write text on the graph:
      Main Menu --> Window --> Drawing Object --> (pop-up a menu) Text --> click with the mouse on a location on the graph --> (pop-up a new menu) type the text on the String box
      • A\sm\N\Sn\N (writes A with subscript m and superscript n)
      • \x a \f{} (writes the greek letter alpha)
      • \#{b7} (creates a dot for multiplication)
    • some advanced symbol-text , and the the xmgrace source of it
    • operations with data sets
      • Call up the command interpreter from Main:Window/Commands ...
      • We need to create a set to hold the result, S2.
        We can type a command: s2 length s0.length
      • We have to break up the computation into an x part and a y part.
        s2.x = s0.x
        Now we can perform the math: s2.y = cos(s0.y) + sin(s1.y)
        Unhide the set by typing: S2 on.
    • ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/visual/grace/ (agrmerge.pl,...)
  • one can use the Help item on main menu. Also a tutorial is provided.
  • see local documentation
• xmgr (old version of XmGrace)
  • it works on every workstation
  • is started by the xmgr command
  • advanced topics
    • xmgr -maxgraph 50 (allows 50 graphs)
    • xmgr -maxsets 50 (allows 50 sets)
  • Xmgr User Guide