Manual for Package pgfplots
2D/3D Plots in LATeX, Version 1.18.1
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots

The Reference

4.1TeX dialects: LaTeX, ConTeXt, plain TeX

The starting point for pgfplots is an axis environment like axis or the logarithmic variants semilogxaxis, semilogyaxis or loglogaxis.

Each environment is available for LaTeX, ConTeXt and plain TeX:

LaTeX:

\usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} and

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copy \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} ... \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}	copy \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{semilogxaxis} ... \end{semilogxaxis} \end{tikzpicture}

Here, the \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} key should be set to at least version 1.3. Otherwise pgfplots assumes that your document has been generated years ago and attempts to run in backwards compatibility mode as good as it can.

Since LaTeX is the default for many people, this manual only shows LaTeX examples. A full document skeleton can be found below this enumeration.

ConTeXt:

\usemodule[pgfplots] \pgfplotsset[compat=1.18] and

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copy \starttikzpicture \startaxis ... \stopaxis \stoptikzpicture	copy \starttikzpicture \startsemilogxaxis ... \stopsemilogxaxis \stoptikzpicture

A complete ConTeXt example file can be found in

copy doc/context/pgfplots/pgfplotsexample.tex.

plain TeX:

\input pgfplots.tex \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} and

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copy \tikzpicture \axis ... \endaxis \endtikzpicture	copy \tikzpicture \semilogxaxis ... \endsemilogxaxis \endtikzpicture

A complete plain TeX example file can be found in

copy doc/plain/pgfplots/pgfplotsexample.tex.

For LaTeX, a complete example will look somehow like this:

If you use latex / dvips or pdflatex, no further modifications are necessary. For dvipdfm, you should use the \def\pgfsysdriver line as indicated above in the examples (see also Section 2.6.3).