What makes Ctioga so interesting ?
Here is why I did write ctioga:
- very good-looking graphes: it is based on Tioga, which I believe produces the best-looking graphs I’ve seen;
- easy to use
-even though it is command-line based, you can basically plot a simple data file within a few seconds; - uses pdfLaTeX to display text, so you can have pretty neat equations on graphs that even actually look good;
- a themes engine that allows one to gather common options and further customization of the output into a small file and keep a consistent style over a wide range of plots;
- the possibility to save the legend pictograms as separate files to include them in a document, unique as far as I’m aware (please correct me if I’m wrong);
- the possibility to plot a great number of curves with a color gradient from the first to the last;
- full transparency support (for fills, markers, error bars, lines)
- ever found out that you made a PDF file for a plot and that you are completely unable to remember how and from which data ? Ctioga marks all PDF files it produces with the command-line that was used (on by default starting from ctioga release 1.5)
- and, because it is a command-line tool, fantastic
scripting capabilities
-for instance, you can switch all the figures in your document (say PhD…) from color to monochrome by just adding a--monoswitch… That will even take care of the legends you might have included in your document ! - you can easily add tangents to curves (see the tutorial)
- PDF, EPS and PNG output
- many more still !
You should definitely have a look at the gallery and at the demo gallery for typical examples of the capabilities of ctioga.
