[ddp] gri : a language for scientific illustration

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Hello,

Today, I'm happy to present you the Debian package gri, which is part
of the science section, and maintained by Peter S Galbraith
<psg at debian.org>. 

This package contains : a language for scientific illustration.

Gri is an open-source language for scientific graphics programming. It is
command-driven, as opposed to point/click. Some users consider Gri similar
to LaTeX, since both provide extensive power as a reward for tolerating a
learning curve. The output is industry-standard PostScript as output,
suitable for inclusion in other documents.

Gri can make x-y graphs, contour graphs, and image graphs. Fine control is
provided over all aspects of drawing, e.g. line widths, colors, fonts,
etc. Greek letters and mathematical symbols are available in a TeX-like
syntax.

Folks who write 1000-line Gri scripts usually start with something as
simple as the following:

  open file.dat        # open a file
  read columns x * y   # read the 1st column as x and the 3rd as y
  draw curve           # draw the data and autoscale the axes

A full manual is also available in HTML (gri-html-doc package), in
PDF suitable for printing (gri-pdf-doc package) and on-line by
following links from the gri home page:
  http://gri.sourceforge.net/


Package homepage     :
 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/gri

Package bug homepage :
 http://bugs.debian.org/gri

Package QA homepage  :
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/gri

Have fun with Debian packages !

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