.TH PLOT-TABLE LOCAL
.SH NAME
plot-table \- conveniently plot tabular data with gnuplot
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I plot-table
[-x11 | -gif | -ps]
.B file
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.I Plot-table
plots tabular data such as this (produced by make-table):

.\" ### initiate asis block ###
.nr UU \n(.u   \"asis block ###
.nf            \"asis block ###
\&         !    one    two  three
\&    Jan_09     20      .      .
\&    Jan_10     81     23      .
\&    Jan_11     39      7      .
\&    Jan_12     64     18      .
\&    Jan_13     61      .      9
\&    Jan_14      .      .     13
\&    Jan_15      .      .     11
\&    Jan_16      .      .     12
.if \n(UU .fi  \"asis block ###
.\" ### complete asis block ###

.PP
If an output format is specified (-x11, -gif, or -ps)
.I plot-table
will gerate a complete plot for that device (gif and ps into
.I file\c
\&.gif or .ps), or directly on
the screen for x11.  If no format is specified,
.I gnuplot
commands are
emitted to standard output for possible post-processing to further
customize the plot.
.PP
.I Plot-table 
generates: a graph line for each of columns 2-N versus column one,
a title for the graph from the input filename, labels for each
line from the column labels and a few evenly spaced labels for the
x-asis chosen from column 1 of the input data.

.SH SEE ALSO
plot-table(local), unmake-table(local), gnuplot(local)
.SH AUTHOR
Corey Satten corey@cac.washington.edu