About PGFPlots: Preliminaries
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2.3The Team
pgfplots has been written mainly by
Christian Feuersänger with many improvements of Pascal Wolkotte
and Nick Papior Andersen as a spare time project. We hope it is
useful and provides valuable plots.
If you are interested in writing something but don’t know how,
consider reading the auxiliary manual
TeX-programming-notes.pdf
which comes with pgfplots. It is far
from complete, but maybe it is a good starting point (at least for
more literature).