On an SGI O2 running XWinplot 3.1
Before May-2002, all the plotting that I did & that I instructed students
to use was the "plot" command. Before then, every time that I looked into
using xwinplot, I could never get the output
to be acceptable. With version 3.1, I find that now I prefer xwinplot over
the "plot" command.
With "plot", I was constantly changing "CY" & changing the spacing for the
x-axis tic marks (would often be either not-enough or too-many for expansions).
I like that from within xwinplot, I can manually control the contours; tell
it what intensity, number of levels to draw, then a multiplication
factor. For weak crosspeaks in inverse experiments, I like to use a factor
of 1.1 to help make the crosspeaks stand-out from the noise.
For plotting comparison plots (Dual), comparing xwinplot with H1+H1.xwp &
H1+H1+H1.xwp layouts to the the au program "stack1d"; xwinplot is far
better, quicker, & easier.
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Improvements that I would suggest for xwinplot would include:
Allow the {Edit} & {1D/2D Edit} windows to be open at same time & also be
able to use "EXPAND" button
Give us an option for the projections for 2Ds where the CY scaling can be
set to a fixed value. The automatic rescaling when changing plot regions
is a pain.
Have a recall last expanded region(s) capability.
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Within xwinplot(3.1), Access to the "Portfolio Editor" is different
depending upon whether one is using the SGI version or the Windows-2K
version. The SGI version is easier to get to.
At 08:54 AM 11/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear XWin-NMR users,
>
>at the recent UK Bruker Users' Meeting, it became clear that quite a lot of
>users did NOT consider XWin-Plot, in its present form at least, to be a
>full and satisfactory replacement for the older "plot" function in XWin-NMR.
>
>
>Mike Engelhardt said that he could not understand this. He felt that
>XWin-Plot provided all the functionality of "plot" and more and that the
>"plot" function was no longer needed. He asked for users to report their
>problems with XWin-Plot, so that he could sort them out.
>
>
>I have, so far, suggested to him that:
>
>There is no proper "help" routine. The "help" links simply jump you into
>the .pdf manual and that manual is out of date and (seriously) lacks detail.
>
>Layout parameters can only be modified by poking around among the twigs of
>the edit trees, without direct keyboard entry.
>
>AUTOPLOT and "xwp", while they offer some useful functionality, are
>insufficiently flexible. (Horizontal and Vertical scaling operations,
>projections etc.)
>
>
>
>As Bruker are not implementing "plot" in the Linux version of XWin-NMR and
>do not intend to include it in future versions of the Windows version, we
>need an XWin-Plot that is easier to learn and simpler to use. Please put
>your observations on BUM, with copies to Mike Engelhardt.
>
>
>
>
>Jim Bloxsidge.
>
>
>
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>Chemistry (C4),
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