Tips for Xmgrace
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Editing
- Beware: there is no Undo option but Reverse to saved so it is better to often save your working document.
- copy-paste within different boxes does not seem to be possible, one can open a terminal for temporary paste.
Useful inline commands and aliases
- grabbing data from pipe
:> ./program_printing_data | xmgrace -pipe
- Some bash aliases (or command lines) for defining axis and data type
alias xmlog='xmgrace -log xy' alias xmlogy='xmgrace -log y' alias xmlogx='xmgrace -log x' alias xmbar='xmgrace -settype xydy' alias xmlogbar='xmgrace -log xy -settype xydy' alias xmlogybar='xmgrace -log y -settype xydy'
Typography
- when typing in a text , you can invoke the Font-Tool application by pressing
Ctrl-e
and then choose your token and press Apply. It will insert the chosen token in your current text line.
- Shortcuts for \f{Police} (have to check this)
\0 Times-Roman \1 Times-Italic \2 Time-Bold \3 Time-BoldItalic \4 Helvetica \5 Helvetica-Oblique \6 Helvetica-Bold \7 Helvetica-BoldOblique \f{} get back to original font \x Symbol (in particular Greek letters)
- Shortcuts for text manipulation (From Grace guide)
\+ increase size \- decrease size \b backspace (size of previous character) \u begin underline \U stop underline \s subscript \S superscript \N normal \n newline \o begin overline \O end overline
- Useful examples:
<math>\hbar</math> | h\v{0.65}\h{-0.5}\z{0.6}_\v{}\h{}\z{} |
<math>\dot{x}</math> | \1x\h{-0.2}\v{0.7}.\v{}\h{} |
<math>\infty</math> | \x¥ |