═══ 1. Extended Help ═══

This program is a display interface for Gnuplot. 

When it starts up, it spawns a new session which contains  the GNUPLOT program. 
This new session provides the usual Gnuplot command line. 


═══ 2. Options Menu Help ═══

The Options menu enables you to change various options on the displayed plot, 
and to control printing of the plot via the OS/2 print system. 


═══ 3. Help Menu Help ═══

The About menu item displays the About box, which just identifies the program. 


═══ 4. Options Menu Help ═══

The Fonts menu item from the Options pulldown menu enables you to change the 
font used in the displayed plot. 


═══ 5. Options Menu Help ═══

The Print menu item from the Options pulldown menu enables you to print the 
current window on the default printer. 


═══ 6. Options Menu Help ═══

  Selecting 

the Lines menu item from the Options pulldown menu causes lines used for graphs 
to be plotted in various line types, such as dotted or dashed.  It can be 
combined with the Colours. option.  When a plot is printed on a printer that 
does not support colour, the  Lines. option is enabled. 


═══ 7. Options Menu Help ═══

  Selecting 

the Colours menu item from the Options pulldown menu causes lines used for 
graphs to be plotted in various colours. This is the default option for 
plotting on the screen. It can be combined with the Lines. option. 


═══ 8. Print dialog box help ═══

 This dialog box enables you to print the displayed plot. 

 The plot may be printed by selecting the OK button. 

 The print option can be cancelled by selecting Cancel . 

 If you wish to adjust the default behaviour of the printer, choose the Setup 
printer option. This will pop up a dialog box enabling you to adjust the print 
area. From this box you can also change printer defaults. Note that printing to 
a file is an option of the printer driver  you have loaded, and must be enabled 
via the Set Printer option of the Printer setup dialog box. 


═══ 9. Printer setup dialog box help ═══

 This dialog box enables you to setup the printer. 

 The setup can be selected by clicking on the OK button. 

 The setup can be cancelled by selecting Cancel . 

 The area of the page in which the plot will be displayed is indicated. You can 
change this by selecting the Set Page button. You can then adjust the area with 
the mouse, and click on button 1 to select the new area. Another way of doing 
this is by typing the appropriate data into the entry windows which give the 
size of the plot area, either in centimeters or relative to the page size. 

 If you wish to adjust the default behaviour of the printer, choose the Set 
printer option. This will bring up your printer setup dialog box. This is part 
of the printer driver, and the  features you can adjust will depend on your 
printer. You can generally use this to swich between landscape and portrait 
mode, for instance. Note that some drivers might not have any options. 


═══ 10. Fonts dialog box help ═══

 This dialog box enables you to change the font used on the displayed plot. 

 The font is selected by clicking on the OK button. 

 The new selection is ignored by selecting Cancel . 

 Choose a font from the displayed list. The chosen font is previwed in the 
Example window.