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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/plotutils.scm | 30 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm b/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm index a86e1e4473..c7d4b15c4a 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/plotutils.scm @@ -438,6 +438,9 @@ programs for plotting scientific data.") (substitute* "CMakeLists.txt" (("add_subdirectory\\(www\\)") "")))))) (build-system cmake-build-system) + ;; TODO: Review all available options and bindings to enable them or split + ;; in dedicated packages, see Debian's package for inspirations: + ;; <https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/plplot>. (arguments (list #:configure-flags @@ -449,19 +452,22 @@ programs for plotting scientific data.") (home-page "http://plplot.org/") ;no HTTPS (synopsis "Scientific plotting library with Unicode support") (description - "PLplot is a software package for creating scientific plots. -The PLplot core library can be used to create: + "PLplot is a software package for creating scientific plots which core +library can be used to create standard x-y plots, semi-log plots, log-log +plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. +Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single +page, and multiple pages are allowed for those device formats that support +them. -@itemize -@item standard x-y plots -@item semi-log plots -@item log-log plots -@item contour plots -@item 3D surface plots -@item mesh plots -@item bar charts -@item pie charts -@end itemize") +PLplot has support for plot symbols and text specified by the user in the +UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. This means for our many Unicode-aware devices that +plot symbols and text are only limited by the collection of glyphs normally +available via installed system fonts. Furthermore, a large subset of our +Unicode-aware devices also support complex text layout (CTL) languages such as +Arabic, Hebrew, and Indic and Indic-derived CTL scripts such as Devanagari, +Thai, Lao, and Tibetan. Thus, for these PLplot devices essentially any +language that is supported by Unicode and installed system fonts can be used +to label plots.") (license (list license:lgpl2.0 license:gpl2+ ;octave bindings license:bsd-2 ;docbook docs |