Other plotting features


Zooming

You can zoom in on any part of plot by selecting “Zoom” from the Plot menu or by typing Control-=. You will be prompted in the echo area to click on two points in the plot. Those two points are the corners of a box surrounding the part of the plot you want to zoom in to. You can zoom repeatedly. Selecting “Unzoom” from the Plot menu or typing Control-- will restore the original plot. Incremental unzooming is not implemented.

Cursor

You can grab coordinate values from any point in a plot by selecting “Cursor” from the Plot menu or by typing Control-.. Text will appear in the echo area prompting you to click on a point in the plot. After you do so, the coordinate values will be displayed in the echo area.

Plotting I0

The Plot menu has several options for plotting I0. I0 can be plotted along with μ(E) as shown below. Alternately, I0 can be plotted alone for the current group or for each marked group.

The I0 channel is among the data saved in a project file.

A plot of μ(E) metallic tin along with the signal from the I0 channel.

Merged groups and the standard deviation

When data are merged, the standard deviation spectrum is also computed and saved in project files. The merged data can be plotted along with its standard deviation as shown in the merge section by selecting the “Plot merge+std.dev.” option from the Plot menu.

The collapse button

The group list is only tall enough to display about 11 groups without needing the vertical scroll bar. Any more, and some will be hidden from view by the scrollbar, as in the first figure below. Clicking the collapse button, which is the button with the downward pointing arrow next to the plot option label, the plot options tab is hidden, giving more vertical space to the group list, as in the second figure below.

When the plot options are hidden, the collapse button is replaced by an upward pointing arrow. Clicking it will restore the plot options tabs and shorten the group list.

ATHENA with a large number of data groups.

The group list occupies more space at the expense of the plot options tabs.