Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

OHURA Makoto <ohura@debian.org> writes:

> 
> * Package name    : pgfplots

I've added this to the science-viewing task package. 

For the benefit of Makoto, debian-science collects related packages
that are useful to scientists into tasks packages. See
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/index.html

For the benefit of those reading on debian-science, this is package
description.

>   Version         : 1.2
>   Upstream Author : Christian Feuersanger
> * URL or Web page : http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : GPLv3
>   Description     : TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX
> 
>   This package provides tools to generate plots and labeled axes
> easily. It draws normal plots, logplots and semi-logplots. Axis
> ticks, labels, legends (in case of multiple plots) can be added
> with key-value options. It can cycle through a set of predefined
> line/marker/color specifications. In summary, its purpose is to
> simplify the generation of high-quality function plots,
> especially for use in scientific contexts (logplots).
> 

Chris