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-pgfplots - A tool to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots in LaTeX/TeX/ConTeXt.
+pgfplots - A tool to work with scientific data. It draws normal and/or
+logarithmic plots in LaTeX/TeX/ConTeXt.
+
+pgfplotstable - Loads, rounds and formats and postprocesses numerical tables.
Pgfplots draws high-quality function plots in normal or logarithmic
scaling with a user-friendly interface. The user supplies axis labels, legend
@@ -6,14 +9,14 @@ entries and the plot coordinates for one or more plots and Pgfplots applies
axis scaling, computes any logarithms and axis ticks and draws the plots.
It is based on Till Tantau's package PGF/TikZ.
-Pgfplots also provides methods to typeset numeric tables, rounds to prescribed
-accuracy and typesets numbers in the desired format.
+Pgfplotstable displays numerical tables rounded to desired precision in various
+display formats, for example scientific format, fixed point format or integer,
+using TeX's math facilities for pretty printing.
Please take a look at
doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplots.pdf
and
- doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplotstable.pdf
-The manual contains installation instructions and more detailed information.
+ doc/latex/pgfplots/pgfplotstable.pdf.
Copyright 2007/2008 by Christian Feuersaenger.