PLplot Documentation

The documentation results above have been generated from our DocBook/XML source files in doc/docbook/src using a variety of DocBook backend tools. The documentation build happens automatically (only on Linux since the required tools are only available for that O/S) with our CMake-based build system if you specify the cmake option -DBUILD_DOC=ON. For more details about building this documentation and testing it, please look at the file doc/docbook/README.developers in the source tree.

For those wishing to make some contribution to PLplot, helping out with the documentation is a good place to start. DocBook/XML syntax is quite straightforward to understand if you simply follow the form of what is already done in the files in the doc/docbook/src subdirectory of the source tree. However, if you want to dig a little deeper into DocBook, then this on-line book, "DocBook: The Definitive Guide", is an excellent reference.