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- GRAPHICS
-
- Graph menu
-
- The REGULAR selection will graph the data with the labels you have
- entered in the data entry area along the "X" axis. The type of
- graph will depend on the selections you have made in the "styles"
- area. Up to 12 variables may be chosen. You may plot some against
- the left axis and some against the right axis.
-
- -HORIZONTAL graphs put the labels on the "Y" axis and the
- values along the "X". You can not have a right side axis for this
- type of graph.
-
- -"XY" graphs allow up to 12 pairs of variables to be used. You must
- select your data a pair at a time. The first one chosen of each
- pair will be the "X" value of the point and the second will be the
- "Y". You may repeat the same selection between pairs so that you
- can have several variables graphed against the same "X". There are
- no XY bar graphs. You can not have a right side axis.
-
- -Histogram. Allows for up to 12 variables although usually used with
- just one. This graph type is like an XY in terms of look. The
- variable chosen sets the limits for the "X" axix. The Y axis is
- the count of values in each range. You establish the ranges by
- telling the program how many bars which you wish to see. The
- program then divides the X axis into that many ranges and counts
- the number of points in each variable in that range. These totals
- are then displayed as bar charts. You are limited to 100 bars on
- screen. If you select 2 variables then you are asked if the
- second variable is a count variable. This allows you to have
- partially grouped data.
-
- -HI LO graphs are stock market graphs. The first 3 variables chosen
- will be displayed as a high low close type of graph. The remainder
- of the 12 possible graphs will be shown as selected on the styles
- section. You can use right side axis which allows you to graph
- volume on the same graph as stock prices. You can have a hi low
- graph with only 2 variables. In this case the data represents
- simply a high and low but no close.
-
- -PIE CHARTS. You may have up to 4 pies on the screen. Simply
- specify the correct number of variables. A special case exists for
- 2 pie charts if you have selected "component pies" from the
- features menu. In this case the second variable will be assumed to
- be an explosion of the first pie segment.
-
- -3D PIE CHARTS are the same as regular pie charts except for the 3D
- aspect.
-
- -BUBBLE GRAPHS require 3 or more variables to be chosen.
- The first specifies the "X" value of the point. The second
- specifies the "Y" value of the point and the third specifies
- the relative area of the bubble. If more than 3 variables are
- chosen the remaining variables are used to create a pie chart
- inside the bubble.
-
- -OPPOSED BARS require 2 variables which must be positive. If
- logs are on they are ignored. Opposed bars are good for comparing
- similar data against one another. an example might be the
- population of the U.S.A. by age group where one variable
- represents males and another females. The key feature of
- opposed bars is that there is no offset between the variables.
- One peculiarity of the implementation comes up in rescaling.
- The second variable is treated as being negative by the
- program. Thus the minimum value is shown as a negative. This
- is a requirement so ensure that you enter a negative for the
- minimum, even though it will be printed as a positive.
-
- -FLOATING BARS require 2 variables for each bar plotted. The
- first represents the minimum of the floating bar and the second the
- top. Like XY graphs you will continue to be prompted for input
- until you fail to enter 2 variables.
- This is not an XY graph however. The X-axis is scaled by the
- labels just as for a regular graph.
-
- -HORIZONTAL FLOATING BARS are the same as regular floating bars
- except that the graph is done horizontally.
-
- -POLAR PLOTS are a variation on XY graphs. Selection procedures are
- the same. The difference is that the variables chosen give the
- angle in radians and distance of the point rather than "X" and "Y"
- respectively.
-
- -3D BAR/LINE allow for up to 40 points in each factor. The data is
- displayed with a three dimensional aspect. The variables are
- displayed behind one another with the first variable chosen being
- the front variable. In some cases data points will not be seen
- since the column will be entirely hidden. No right side scaling
- may be used. Lines will be shown as ribbon graphs unless "filled"
- has been chosen. In this case a 3D area graph is drawn. Point
- graphs are ignored.
-
- GRAPH B
-
- These procedures are particular graph types used for analysis.
-
- -A STAR GRAPH produces a chart describing the physical values of
- several variables at each of several points. There should be no
- negative values. For each point a series of lines are drawn
- starting at 3 O'clock and then working counter clock wise around
- the point. The length of the lines represents how high the value
- of the variable is for that point. The minimum value of the line
- is set to 20 percent of the maximum.
-
- -A SUN RAY GRAPH is similar in concept. In this case each line is
- the same length but the line is cut at a value indicating relative
- length. If the line is cut exactly in the middle then the point has
- a value for that variable which is at the mean for all points.
-
- -A BOX WHISKER GRAPH requires the selection of a variable and a
- category variable. The box and whisker are then drawn for values
- from the first variable where the categorical variable is at a
- certain level. The box and whisker is a regular style graph. The
- box has it's top value at the 3rd quartile point and its bottom at
- the first quartile. The box is bisected by a line at the median.
- Extending out from the box at top and bottom are the whiskers.
- These reach out to the highest and lowest point in the data
- variable for a given level of the categorical variable.
-
- -The NOTCHED BOX WHISKER is the same except that there is an
- additional piece of information given. There is a notch in the box
- which covers a 95 percent confidence limit on the median. The depth
- of the notch is proportional to the number of elements in the
- variable with that value of the categorical variable.
-
- -An INTERACTION GRAPH is used in 2 way Analysis of Variance.
- Three variables must be chosen. The first contains observed
- values. The second contains levels of the first factor in the
- analysis and the third contains levels of the second factor. The
- levels must start at 0 and be integer. If there are 16 or fewer
- levels of the first factor then you will be asked to type in
- labels for them. These will appear as the borrom axis labels. The
- program will plot the means for each combination of factor
- levels. The lines will be done for each factor level of the
- second factor. If the resulting lines are parallel to one another
- then there is no interaction. If they are not then there is some.
- If confidence limits are turned on then the confidence bounds for
- each mean are calculated.
-
- -XYZ graphs are similar to XY graphs. The main difference is that
- there are three coordinate axes, and you must pick the variables
- in threes. Another change is the lack of a legend. No legend is
- put on the right of the graph to allow for the extra width
- taken by the three dimensional graph. For labelling you will
- need to use the custom labelling feature. For XYZ graphs you may
- select point, line and bar options. The bar option does not
- actually produce bars in this situation. Instead, a
- perpendicular is dropped to the XY plain. This gives a better
- indicator of the height of the point.
-
- -Z function plots are three dimensional graphs of a function of
- the form Z=f(X,Y). You will be asked to specify the graphing
- limits for X,Y and Z. You will then be asked to specify the
- equation and then the number of steps to make in each of the X
- and Y directions. The greater the number of steps, the finer
- the graph but also the slower the graph. With 50 steps in each
- direction there are 5000 calls to the parser and this can be a
- slow process. After setting the parameters you will be asked
- whether you want hidden lines or not. The default is for no
- hidden lines (ie a wire frame). If hidden lines are chosen
- there is one more option asked. You are asked if you want the graph
- textured. If yes the graph will use the colors and pie settings for
- pie chart fills to color the graph depending on the maximum height
- in each quadrilateral.
-
- You will be asked if you want thick or thin outlines for the
- quadrilaterals. Use thin unless your intent is to print using
- GDOS to a high res printer such as a laser. On a 640 by 480
- screen the X axis is about 400 points wide. Since a wide line is
- 3 pixels wide a thick outline leaves little room for fills. On a
- laser printed horizontally the X axis is about 5 times as wide in
- pixels and the line is still only 3 pixels wide.
-
- You will be asked to specify the break points for each color.
-
- -The next option is a combination of the previous 2. The main use
- for this option is to examine actual points from a regression
- against the 3D regression surface provided by the computer.
-
- -The Z Data plot assumes that all of the data in the editor
- represents Z values for particular combinations of X and Y which
- are uniformly spaced. It does not know what the minimum and
- maximum X and Y values are. You will be asked to specify the
- maximum and minimum for X,Y, and Z just as for a function plot.
- You will not need to specify the number of steps since that
- is determined by the amount of data available. As an example
- consider a select mortality table as used by an insurance
- company. There would be rates of mortality for each issue age
- and for each of the first 15 durations since the policy was
- issued. If we were to examine mortality rates for ages 15 to 75
- and for durations 1 to 15 the data would be set up as follows.
- There would be 15 columns in use. Each row in the column would
- represent the mortality level at a given age for that
- duration. There would be 61 rows to handle the various ages. The
- number of steps would internally be set to 60 and 14 with this
- data.
-
- For all of the XYZ graph types the "right side" title is used
- to label the "Y" axis.
-
- -Y function graphs are those of the form Y=f(X). the use is very
- similar to Z function graphs. You can combine Y function graphs
- with XY graphs.
-
- -Histogram plus Y function graphs. This can be a most interesting
- combination. It is generally used to examine fit of a distribution
- to the data/
-
- -Histogram plus Normal. Because the nomal distribution is the most
- common it is set up as a special instance of the previous graph
- type.
-
- -Q-Q Graphs. You simply pick the variables to graph from 1 to 12.
- The graph uses an XY plot with the X axis being determined by the
- normal quantiles of the ordered data. the graph type is used to
- examine normality and to pick out points which are out of place.
-
- -Text only Graphs. This simply produces a screen with titles
- only. You may then use custom labels to ad points of interest.
- used only for preparing transparencies for a presentation.
-
- SETTINGS
-
- The settings menu allows you to define how the graph will look.
-
- -The palette setting allows you to set the palette for the graph.
- There are 16 colors possible with B/STAT. 8 are set on each of 2
- pages. The settings for Red, Green and Blue are set in units from
- 0 to 1000. The right mouse button causes the values to decrease.
- The left causes them to increase. The speed is graduated depending
- on how long the mouse button is held.
-
- -User Fill allows you to define up to 6 fill patterns for use
- by the program. These may be saved and reloaded for the next use
- of B/STAT. They are not compatible with fill files from DEGAS.
-
- -Styles allows setting the line style fill pattern and point style.
- It also allows you to turn on lines bars or points. All 3 can be
- on for any given variable. The line style allows for regular lines
- and step lines.
-
- -Pie Style allows you to set colors and fill styles for pies as well
- as whether a slice is exploded.
-
- -Background allows for setting a background fill pattern over which
- the graph is drawn. There are two types of fills. These are
- gradient fills and regular fills.
-
- There are two types of regular fill, Full and Partial.
- For Full the entire graph area is filled in. For Partial only the
- part of the graph between the axis lines is filled in. The
- selection of fill style is the same as for pie or bar styles.
-
- Gradient fills are more spectacular. In a gradient fill the
- background color is blended smoothly between two colors which you
- specify. For example you might grade between a yellow and an
- aquamarine color, going through green on the way. This sort of
- fill can be most spectacular in presentations. To see this type
- of fill on screen requires a screen which can display 256 colors.
- However one does not need this to use the feature. Meta files
- support 256 colors even if done from a monochrome screen. B/STAT
- also allows TIFF files and BMP files to be created with a
- gradient fill even if the screen can only display 16 colors.
-
- When you select a gradient fill you are asked to set the red,
- green and blue levels for the start color and the end color.
- These levels run from 0 to 1000. You will not be able to see the
- colors on screen so you will have to use trial and error. As well
- you must set a speed for the transition. One is a linear grade.
- Values above 1 make the change happen faster. those below 1 do
- the reverse. Values may be from .1 to 10.
-
- Once the color gradation is chosen you must select the style of
- gradient. There are three. linear which grades from the top to
- the bottom is the most commonly used. Radial is a fill which
- works in circles from a central point. Box is similar to radial
- except that squares are used for the color changes. For both of
- these two types you must then select the location where you want
- the center of the fill to be. Thus you can have a center location
- which is not at the center of the graph.
-
- In order to create a TIFF or BMP file with a gradient fill and a
- display capable of only 16 colors the following procedure must be
- followed.
-
- 1. Select a full regular background fill. Ensure that it is a
- solid fill in color 15.
-
- 2. Select a gradient fill in the style which you desire.
-
- 3. Produce the graph on screen. What you will get is a graph with
- a regular background fill.
-
- 4. Save the graph as a TIFF file.
-
- 5. relax this is a slow process
-
- The program in sending the file out to disk will convert each
- pixel that is in color 15 into the color it would have been had
- the screen been 256 colors. This is slow.
-
- When doing this make sure that no graph elements other than the
- background are in color 15.
-
- -Axes allows turning scaling or axes on and off as well as selecting
- the color to be used. Tic marks may be turned on or set to go in
- or out.
-
- -Titles allows you to enter the titles to be used on the graph.
-
- -Title Fonts allows you to select the color and style of the titles
- and scales used in the graph. There are settings for most possible
- text uses.
-
- -Title Boxes allow you to place filled boxes (regular or rounded)
- behind the each of the titles. The titles will then take up more
- room and the graph will be consequently smaller. These can be
- quite effective for presentation purposes.
-
- -Tic size allows the setting of major and minor tic lengths.
-
- -Overlap allows you to select the percentage overlap on bar charts.
- The default is -33 which gives white space of one third the width
- of a bar.
-
- Toggle
-
- -Boxed means that for regular and horizontal graphs a line will be
- drawn to close in the graph.
-
- -Rt side axis will allow a right side axis on regular graphs. This
- is a three way toggle. The first setting is off. The next is for
- regular right axis scaling. Variables may be graphed against the
- scaling of the right axis which is independent of the left axis.
- The last setting is for split screen graphs. This is similar to
- regular right axis scaling in that some variables may be plotted
- against this second axis. The difference is that in this case the
- screen is split 2/3 1/3 with the second scale being a separate
- graph drawn in the lower third of the screen. This approach is
- often used for stock market graphs where volume of sales is shown
- in the lower graph.
- Both of these options are available only on high low graphs and
- regular graphs.
-
- -Stacked will give stacked bar graphs and area graphs for line
- graphs.
-
- -Filled will cause the area between lines to be filled in. It can
- not be combined with stacked. If you choose filled with a two
- factor line graph then you will be asked if you want a difference
- graph. If yes then only the difference between the lines is
- filled in and the shading is based upon the factor which is
- higher at that given time.
-
- -Vals above will cause the value of the point to be displayed above
- it for regular and horizontal graphs. For Pie charts the values
- will be printed below the pie label.
-
- -Legend is a three way toggle. At the first level no legend is
- displayed. At the secoond level (default) a legend is shown on
- the right hand side of the graph. At the third level a horizontal
- legend is placed at the bottom of the graph.
-
- -Log X causes the X axis to be on a LOG basis.
-
- -Log Y does the same for the Y axis.
-
- -Log Z does the same for the z axis
-
- -Proportional Pie means that if more than 1 pie is shown on the
- screen at once there relative sizes will be determined by the total
- of the values in each pie. This is quite useful when comparing 4
- years of sales data.
-
- -Component Pie. When 2 variables are selected for a pie graph this
- option causes the second variable to be taken as a subset of the
- first pie sector. The values in the second variable are displayed
- as a stacked bar set to the right of the pie.
-
- -Pie Percent will cause the percentage each pie slice
- represents to be printed in the pie slice. The percent is
- rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
-
- -VECTOR XY(Z) when selected lines on XY and XYZ plots will not
- join points but rather will be vectors from the origin to the
- point. The most common use for such graphs is in factor analysis
- for displaying the relationship of the factors one to another.
-
- Toggle 2
-
- -High Low ends. when selected causes high low lines to have a
- horizontal line drawn at each end. This is useful for error bars.
-
- -Outlined Bars. This option creates a special type of bar chart
- where an overarching bar at the height of the sum of the
- components is drawn under the regular bars. This has the advantage
- of displaying two types of information on the same graph.
-
- -Error Bars
- when selected XY graphs are to be done with error bars.
- 4 variables must be chosen; the regular 2 and then the high and
- low points for the Y value.
-
- If this option is chosen and either a regular or horizontal graph
- is selected then the interpretation is slightly different. Two
- variables are chosen for each graph element. The first is the
- regular "Y" value. The second is the distance for the error bars
- to extend. This can be the standard error or the 95% confidence.
- For bar graphs the error bar will only be drawn in the upwards
- direction.
-
- -Bezier. There are 3 selections here which come up in turn. These
- are no Bezier, Bezier and Sorted Bezier. When selected a Bezier
- curve is drawn on XY plots using the data as control points. When
- the data is not sorted the Bezier curve follows the data as it is
- entered. When sorted it follows the data in ascending order of the
- X variable.
-
- -B Spline. Identical to Bezier except that a B spline is used rather
- than a Bezier curve.
-
- -95% Conf Lim. When selected XY and regular graphs will be
- interpreted to calculate the 95% confidence limits and display them
- as error bars. You will be asked for a categorical variable. This
- variable will consist of a class identifier for each point. The
- program will actually graph values for the classes rather than
- individual points. The program will calculate the mean and the 95%
- confidence limits. These are then graphed as error bars. You can
- select either to calculate 95% confidence limits for individual
- points or for the mean itself. You may also choose to have simply
- the standard deviation without conversion to the 95% confidence
- level.
-
- -Pyramid 3D. When chosen, 3D bars will be pyramids not columns.
-
- -Top Tics. When selected regular graphs will have a top axis with
- tics at the same places as the bottom axis.
-
- -Tics at ends. Tics normally are placed in the middle of an
- interval (on axes with labels). This option places the tics at
- the ends of the intervals. In some cases with clustered bar
- charts this approach makes it easier to tell which bars naturally
- go together. There are actually three settings on this switch.
- The third setting alters labelling with tics at end. It is used
- when you want to combine points and label them together. For
- example you may have monthly sales data but want to label it by
- quarter while still showing the monthly data. You specify the
- number of points in a period. You then specify the labels for
- each period. There can be no more than 16 periods.
-
- -Contour is a three way toggle. The default is that no contours
- will be drawn. This function is only applicable to Z function and
- Z data graphs. A contour plot gives the projections on the XY
- plane of constant Z values. It is most familiar on topographical
- maps where the lines show the areas of constant altitude.
-
- You will be asked to specify the number of labels. This is done by
- selecting from none, medium and high. The actual number of labels
- will vary depending on the number of contour lines and their
- lengths.
-
- If selected then you must give the values for which the contours
- will be drawn. There are a maximum of 14 levels you may select.
- The 2 other options are contours with the regularily selected graph over
- the top and contours with the regular graph suppressed.
-
- In the case where you are drawing a z function and showing it
- along with the contours you will be asked if you wish to double
- the resolution of the contour lines. If so then the number of
- steps in each direction will be doubled in determining the
- contours. They will remain as chosen for the graph itself.
-
- -Kep scale. When chosen the previously used settings for maximum
- and minimum etc will be used for the next graph. This saves work
- if you are graphing a set of variables and do not want them to
- have different ranges.
-
- -Value table. If selected then below the graph will be drawn a
- table showing the values in the data.
-
- -Histogram fix. If selected, you will be asked for the mean and
- standard deviation of the normal to fit to a histogram. If not set
- the values are determined from the histogram.
-
- -Label stack. If chosen then the X axis labels are offset into two
- separate rows to allow for more labels.
-
- -Equal Scales. If chosen then the spacing in millimeters for a
- unit in the X direction will be the same as for a unit in the Y
- direction on XY graphs and similarily for XYZ graphs. As a result
- the graph will not take up the full graphing space. The
- difference will be slight where the nominal scaling would be
- close in any event. Where the range of values is significantly
- different between the axes then it is unlikely that this option
- should be used. It will likely be necessary to rescale the short
- axis since the tics and label settings are not adjusted.
-
- -Output Background. You can set the color for "color 0" which is
- the basic screen color. This option allows you to output the
- screen color to either a printer or a meta file. You can do the
- same thing by setting a full background fill. By using this
- option you can combine a background color with a partial
- background fill.
-
- -Inverted scale. This option works only on regular graphs and
- only for variables scaled against the left Y axis. When selected
- these variables have the scale reversed. The largest value is at
- the bottom of the graph and the smallest at the top.
-
- -Show Top grids. Sometimes it is desirable to not place a grid
- line at the top value on the graph. This can be because of the
- style of axes lines or just that it crowds the top titles.
-
- -Redraw will redraw the graph if the reset graph option is off.
-
- -Imterpolate When selected this option causes missing data to be
- interpolated for line graphs only. It does not function if there
- are not at least 4 real data points. It also is turned off
- whenever 95% confidence limits are set or if stacked lines are
- being drawn. The purpose is usually in scientific graphs where a
- point style will be combined and the point style will be shown
- only at real data points so that the interpolated nature of the
- line graph is evident. The option toggles between 4 settings. The
- first is no interpolation. Next is cubic spline interpolation,
- then comes linear interpolation and lastly is geometric
- interpolation.
-
- Grids
- These options turn on horizontal and vertical grids and the Z
- grids.
-
- There is also a "zero line" option to ensure that a line is drawn
- at the zero point even if no grids are displayed.
-
- STYLES allows setting the type of grid. The color may be set to
- color 0 which is usefull only with background fills.
-
- Miscellaneous
- -Save Set. This option saves the settings in use for the graph. It
- saves titles, fill settings, fonts etc.
-
- -Load set. Same as above but to bring it back in.
-
- While a graph is on screen labels may be added by double clicking
- where you want them to appear. You will be required to select the
- font and size for the label just as for titles. You have the
- option of adding an arrow.
-
- Simply click where you want it to point. These labels may be
- dragged on the screen. To remove a floating label, double click on
- the label. You are now asked "What to Change?". This can be either
- font, text, or arrow. You can remove the label by selecting text
- and erasing the existing text. A label with no text is simply
- removed from the list of labels. If you choose arrow you can either
- add an arrow if one does not exist or move the anchor point for
- an existing arrow, or remove the arrow. You may also re-size the
- graph. This is done by placing the mouse in the lower right corner
- of the graph and then dragging the mouse. The graph can be reduced
- to 1/4 its original size. You may also reposition the smaller
- graph by holding down the mouse button while the mouse is inside
- the axes.
-
- For most graph types pressing the "F1" key causes a two fold
- magnification about the mouse location. Pressing "F2" does the
- reverse. Pressing "ESC" brings you back to the original settings.
- "F1" and "F2" may be pressed more than once.
-
- The menu bar displayed while a graph is on screen allows you to
- save or print the graph. The "Save" menu items allow five forms
- of saving the screen image. The first is as a DEGAS compatible un-
- compressed image. The second is as a ".IMG" file which can be used
- by desktop publishing programs.
-
- With a color system you will be asked if you want a color IMG
- file. Many desk top publishing programs can not handle a color file
- so you can put out a monochrome version of the screen.
- The IMG files produced by B/STAT are compatible with IMG files
- on MSDOS machines. They can therefore be used with Wordperfect
- version 5.0 on these machines. Note that IMG files are bit image
- files. The quality of reproduction is not as good as using a GDOS
- print to the same physical size area.
-
- The third choice is a TIFF file. TIFF Files are a standard set up
- by ALDUS corporation and Microsoft. B/STAT supports several
- variants for color TIFF files. Note that the TIFF files produced
- by B/STAT are uncompressed. This should not pose a space problem
- as B/STAT files are not large in any event.
-
- The fourth choice is as a BMP file. A BMP file is the standard
- bit map format for Microsoft Windows 3.x. BMP files are
- uncompressed. Color files are all outputted as 16 color images
- even if fewer than 16 colors exist.
-
- The fifth choice is as a metafile. Metafiles can be read by
- programs such as Easy Draw and many desktop publishing programs
- such as Pagestream, Calamus and the Timeworks Desktop Publisher
- (TWDTP). To read the files into TWDTP you will need to select the
- "GEM DRAW" option in TWDTP.
-
- When printing you have three options. First you can print the
- screen using the built in Atari screen dump utility or one which
- you have loaded yourself. The second option is useful only for
- 9 pin Epson printers. This option uses the Epson plotter mode to
- ensure properly scaled pictures.
- A similar feature is available for EPSON LQ 24 pin printers.
- The Hewlett Packard option does a screen dump to the HP laserjet
- family in the same manner.
-
- The third choice uses GDOS if you have it to plot to the printer.
- The text on the graph will not usually look quite the same as on
- the screen since many GDOS fonts are proportional and the default
- screen fonts are not. Also some of the printer fonts are not quite
- the same size as the screen fonts.
-
- The remaining choices are to adjust GDOS printing. The GDOS
- settings item allows you to decide on the width and height of the
- graph on the paper. Various GDOS drivers as well as printers will
- start graphs in different places. Thus setting the starting
- position offset to be zero may not put the graph at exactly the
- edge of the paper. Many Epson clones start graphics 1/4 of an inch
- from the edge. You should therefore do a GDOS print of a graph
- with the standard settings. Before doing the print turn on "GDOS
- box". This will result in a box being drawn around the edges of
- the graphing area. You can then use the resulting positions to
- establish a vertical and horizontal offset for your particular
- printer. The "GDOS Device" Selection allows you to set the device
- ID that the program uses to that which you have set in your
- ASSIGN.SYS file. Most users will never have to use this setting.
- The default in B/STAT is device 21 which is the usual standard.
- This choice is for those lucky individuals who have more than one
- printer in use or who have a plotter which is supported by GDOS.
- "GDOS Rotate" allows you to print the graph in landscape mode as
- opposed to the normal portrait orientation.
-
- The second last choice sets the number of copies for any printout.
-
- The last option is selected only if your printer can use the HP
- Laser option to specify the number of copies. This allows faster
- printing of multiple copies since the printer stores the complete
- page in memory and copies it.
-
- The miscellaneous menu contains several unusual features. The
- "Keep Labels" option when chosen (the default) ensures that the
- custom labels will be kept when you return to the graph selection
- screen. To get rid of them all, simply deselect the option.
-
- Also on the miscellaneous menu is the selection for "Legend Box".
- When this is selected the legend may be dragged around on the
- graph until you release the button. If the option has already been
- selected then reselecting it will result in returning to the
- default setting. When selected you may further move the legend by
- selecting "Move Legend".
-
- "Values" causes the display of the value where the mouse is to be
- continuously displayed in the lower left corner of the screen.
- This option does not work for 3D graphs or pies, sun rays, star or
- box whisker graphs.
-
- Draw Menu
- This selection moves you to the draw menu which is used for
- drawing filled boxes, lines, circles, and ellipses
-