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NAME

       stilts-plot2time - Draws a time plot

SYNOPSIS

       stilts plot2time [xpix=<int-value>] [ypix=<int-value>] [insets=<top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>]
                        [omode=swing|out|cgi|discard|auto] [storage=simple|cache|basic-cache]
                        [seq=<suffix>[,...]] [legend=true|false] [legborder=true|false] [legopaque=true|false]
                        [legseq=<suffix>[,...]] [legpos=<xfrac,yfrac>] [title=<value>] [auxmap=<map-
                        name>|<color>-<color>[-<color>...]] [auxclip=<lo>,<hi>] [auxflip=true|false]
                        [auxquant=<number>] [auxfunc=log|linear|sqrt|square] [auxmin=<number>] [auxmax=<number>]
                        [auxlabel=<text>] [auxcrowd=<factor>] [auxwidth=<pixels>] [auxvisible=true|false]
                        [forcebitmap=true|false] [compositor=0..1] [animate=<table>] [afmt=<in-format>]
                        [astream=true|false] [acmd=<cmds>] [parallel=<int-value>] [ylog=true|false]
                        [yflip=true|false] [tlabel=<text>] [ylabel=<text>] [grid=true|false] [tcrowd=<number>]
                        [ycrowd=<number>] [tformat=iso-8601|year|mjd|unix] [minor=true|false]
                        [texttype=plain|antialias|latex] [fontsize=<int-value>] [fontstyle=standard|serif|mono]
                        [fontweight=plain|bold|italic|bold_italic] [tmin=<year-or-iso8601>] [tmax=<year-or-
                        iso8601>] [tsub=<lo>,<hi>] [ymin=<number>] [ymax=<number>] [ysub=<lo>,<hi>]
                        [navaxes=t|y|ty] [zoomfactor=<number>] [leglabelN=<text>] [layerN=<layer-type> <layerN-
                        specific-params>] [zoneN=<text>]

DESCRIPTION

       plot2time draws plots where the horizontal axis represents time. The time axis can be labelled in various
       different ways including MJD, decimal year and ISO-8601 form.

       Positional  coordinates  are specified as t, y pairs, e.g.: plot2time in1=series.cdf layer1=line t1=EPOCH
       y1=ENERGY

       This command, unlike the other plot2* commands at time of writing, can be used to draw multi-zone  plots.
       These  are  plots  with different panels stacked vertically so that different datasets can share the same
       horizontal (time) axis, but have separate vertical axes, colour maps, legends etc.  The  horizontal  axes
       are  always  synchronized  between  zones. This is currently controlled with the zoneN parameter. For any
       layer with a layer suffix N, you can specify a zone identifier as an arbitrary string,  Z,  by  supplying
       the  parameter zoneN=Z. Layers with the same value of zoneN are plotted in the same zone, and layers with
       different values are plotted in different zones. If no zoneN is given, the layer is assigned to a  single
       (unnamed)  zone,  so  with  no  zone  parameters  specified all plots appear in a single zone. Parameters
       specific to a given zone can then be suffixed with the same  Z  zone  identifier.  The  examples  section
       illustrates what this looks like in practice.

       Note: this plot type, and the multi-zone feature, is experimental. As currently implemented it lacks some
       important features. The interface may be changed in a future version.

       Content is added to the plot by specifying one or more plot layers using the layerN parameter. The N part
       is  a  suffix  applied  to  all  the  parameters affecting a given layer; any suffix (including the empty
       string) may be used. Available layers  for  this  plot  type  are:  mark,  line,  fill,  quantile,  grid,
       histogram, kde, knn, densogram, gaussian, yerror, spectrogram, label, function.

OPTIONS

       xpix=<int-value>
              Size  of  the  output image in the X direction in pixels. This includes space for any axis labels,
              padding and other decoration outside the plot area itself. See also insets.

       ypix=<int-value>
              Size of the output image in the Y direction in pixels. This includes space for  any  axis  labels,
              padding and other decoration outside the plot area itself. See also insets.

       insets=<top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>
              Defines the amount of space in pixels around the actual plotting area. This space is used for axis
              labels, and other decorations and any left over forms an empty border.

              The size and position of the actual plotting area is determined by this parameter along with  xpix
              and ypix.

              The  value  of this parameter is 4 comma separated integers: <top>,<left>,<bottom>,<right>. Any or
              all of these values may be left blank, in which case the corresponding margin will  be  calculated
              automatically according to how much space is required.

       omode=swing|out|cgi|discard|auto
              Determines how the drawn plot will be output, see SUN/256.

                * swing:  Plot  will  be  displayed  in  a  window on the screen. This plot is "live"; it can be
                  resized and (except for old-style plots) navigated around with mouse actions in the  same  way
                  as plots in TOPCAT.

                * out: Plot will be written to a file given by out using the graphics format given by ofmt.

                * cgi:  Plot  will be written in a way suitable for CGI use direct from a web server. The output
                  is in the graphics format given by ofmt, preceded by a suitable "Content-type" declaration.

                * discard: Plot is drawn, but discarded. There is no output.

                * auto: Behaves as swing or out mode depending on presence of out parameter

       storage=simple|cache|basic-cache
              Determines the way that data is accessed when constructing the plot. There are two basic  options,
              cached or not.

              If  no  caching is used (simple) then rows are read sequentially from the specified input table(s)
              every time they are required. This generally requires a small memory footprint  (though  that  can
              depend on how the table is specified) and makes sense if the data only needs to be scanned once or
              perhaps if the table is very large.

              If caching is used (cache) then the required data is read once from the specified  input  table(s)
              and  cached  before any plotting is performed, and plots are done using this cached data. This may
              use a significant amount of memory for large tables but it's usually more sensible (faster) if the
              data will need to be scanned multiple times.

              The default value is cache if a live plot is being generated (omode=swing), since in that case the
              plot needs to be redrawn every time the user performs  plot  navigation  actions  or  resizes  the
              window,  or  if  animations  are  being  produced.  Otherwise (e.g. output to a graphics file) the
              default is simple.

       seq=<suffix>[,...]
              Contains a comma-separated list of layer suffixes to determine the order in which layers are drawn
              on the plot. This can affect which symbol are plotted on top of, and so potentially obscure, which
              other ones.

              When specifying a plot, multiple layers may be specified, each introduced by a parameter layer<N>,
              where  <N>  is  a  different  (arbitrary)  suffix  labelling the layer, and is appended to all the
              parameters specific to defining that layer.

              By default the layers are drawn on the plot in the order in which the layer* parameters appear  on
              the  command  line.  However  if  this  parameter  is  specified,  each comma-separated element is
              interpreted as a layer suffix, giving the ordered list of layers to plot.  Every  element  of  the
              list  must  be a suffix with a corresponding layer parameter, but missing or repeated elements are
              allowed.

       legend=true|false
              Whether to draw a legend or not. If no value is supplied, the decision is  made  automatically:  a
              legend is drawn only if it would have more than one entry.

       legborder=true|false
              If true, a line border is drawn around the legend.

       legopaque=true|false
              If  true,  the  background  of  the  legend is opaque, and the legend obscures any plot components
              behind it. Otherwise, it's transparent.

       legseq=<suffix>[,...]
              Determines which layers are represented in the legend (if present) and in which order they appear.
              The legend has a line for each layer label (as determined by the leglabelN parameter). If multiple
              layers have the same label, they will contribute to the same entry in the legend, with style icons
              plotted  over  each  other.  The  value  of  this parameter is a comma-separated sequence of layer
              suffixes, which determines the order in which the legend  entries  appear.  Layers  with  suffixes
              missing from this list do not show up in the legend at all.

              If  no  value  is  supplied (the default), the sequence is the same as the layer plotting sequence
              (see seq).

       legpos=<xfrac,yfrac>
              Determines the internal position of the legend on the plot. The value is a comma-separated pair of
              values  giving  the  X  and  Y positions of the legend within the plotting bounds, so for instance
              "0.5,0.5" will put the legend right in the middle of the plot. If no value is supplied, the legend
              will appear outside the plot boundary.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended  to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. legposZ
              affects only zone Z.

       title=<value>
              Text of a title to be displayed at the top of the plot. If null, the default, no  title  is  shown
              and there's more space for the graphics.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended  to  the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. titleZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxmap=<map-name>|<color>-<color>[-<color>...]
              Color map used for Aux axis shading.

              A mixed bag of colour ramps are available:  inferno,  magma,  plasma,  viridis,  cubehelix,  sron,
              rainbow,  rainbow2,  rainbow3,  pastel, accent, gnuplot, gnuplot2, specxby, set1, paired, hotcold,
              rdbu, piyg, brbg, cyan-magenta, red-blue, brg, heat, cold,  light,  greyscale,  colour,  standard,
              bugn,  bupu,  orrd, pubu, purd, huecl, hue, intensity, rgb_red, rgb_green, rgb_blue, hsv_h, hsv_s,
              hsv_v,  yuv_y,  yuv_u,  yuv_v,  scale_hsv_s,  scale_hsv_v,  scale_yuv_y,  mask,  blacker,  whiter,
              transparency.  Note:  many  of  these,  including  rainbow-like  ones,  are  frowned  upon  by the
              visualisation community.

              You can also construct your own custom colour map by giving a sequence of colour  names  separated
              by  minus sign ("-") characters. In this case the ramp is a linear interpolation between each pair
              of colours named, using the same syntax as  when  specifying  a  colour  value.  So  for  instance
              "yellow-hotpink-#0000ff" would shade from yellow via hot pink to blue.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended  to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. auxmapZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxclip=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a subrange of the colour ramp to be used for Aux shading. The  value  is  specified  as  a
              (low,high) comma-separated pair of two numbers between 0 and 1.

              If the full range 0,1 is used, the whole range of colours specified by the selected shader will be
              used. But if for instance a value of 0,0.5 is given, only those colours at the left  hand  end  of
              the ramp will be seen.

              If  the null (default) value is chosen, a default clip will be used. This generally covers most or
              all of the range 0-1 but for colour maps which fade to white, a small proportion of the lower  end
              may  be  excluded,  to  ensure  that  all  the  colours  are visually distinguishable from a white
              background. This default is usually a good idea if the colour map is  being  used  with  something
              like  a scatter plot, where markers are plotted against a white background. However, for something
              like a density map when the whole plotting area is tiled with colours from  the  map,  it  may  be
              better to supply the whole range 0,1 explicitly.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. auxclipZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxflip=true|false
              If true, the colour map on the Aux axis will be reversed.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  auxflipZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxquant=<number>
              Allows  the colour map used for the Aux axis to be quantised. If an integer value N is chosen then
              the colour map will be viewed as N discrete evenly-spaced levels, so that only N different colours
              will  appear  in  the  plot.  This  can be used to generate a contour-like effect, and may make it
              easier to trace the boundaries of regions of interest by eye.

              If left blank, the colour map is nominally continuous (though in practice it may be quantised to a
              medium-sized number like 256).

              If  a  zone  suffix  is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. auxquantZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxfunc=log|linear|sqrt|square
              Defines the way that values in the Aux range are mapped to the selected colour ramp.

              The available options are:

                * log: Logarithmic scaling

                * linear: Linear scaling

                * sqrt: Square root scaling

                * square: Square scaling

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  auxfuncZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxmin=<number>
              Minimum value of the data coordinate on the Aux axis. This sets the value before any subranging is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  auxminZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxmax=<number>
              Maximum value of the data coordinate on the Aux axis. This sets the value before any subranging is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  auxmaxZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxlabel=<text>
              Sets the label used to annotate the aux axis, if it is visible.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. auxlabelZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxcrowd=<factor>
              Determines how closely the tick marks are spaced on the Aux axis, if visible. The default value is
              1,  meaning  normal  crowding. Larger values result in more ticks, and smaller values fewer ticks.
              Tick marks will not however be spaced so closely that the labels overlap each  other,  so  to  get
              very closely spaced marks you may need to reduce the font size as well.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. auxcrowdZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxwidth=<pixels>
              Determines the lateral size of the aux colour ramp, if visible, in pixels.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone  is  affected,  e.g.  auxwidthZ
              affects only zone Z.

       auxvisible=true|false
              Determines whether the aux axis colour ramp is displayed alongside the plot.

              If not supplied (the default), the aux axis will be visible when aux shading is used in any of the
              plotted layers.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected,  e.g.  auxvisibleZ
              affects only zone Z.

       forcebitmap=true|false
              Affects  whether  rendering  of the data contents of a plot (though not axis labels etc) is always
              done to an  intermediate  bitmap  rather  than,  where  possible,  being  painted  using  graphics
              primitives.  This  is a rather arcane setting that may nevertheless have noticeable effects on the
              appearance and size of an output graphics file, as well as plotting time. For some types  of  plot
              (e.g.  shadingN=auto  or  shadingN=density)  it  will have no effect, since this kind of rendering
              happens in any case.

              When writing to vector graphics formats (PDF and PostScript), setting it true will force the  data
              contents to be bitmapped. This may make the output less beautiful (round markers will no longer be
              perfectly round), but it may result in a much smaller file if there are very many data points.

              When writing to bitmapped output formats (PNG, GIF, JPEG, ...), it fixes shapes to be the same  as
              seen  on  the  screen rather than be rendered at the mercy of the graphics system, which sometimes
              introduces small distortions.

       compositor=0..1
              Defines how multiple overplotted partially transparent pixels are combined  to  form  a  resulting
              colour. The way this is used depends on the details of the specified plot.

              Currently,  this  parameter  takes  a  "boost"  value  in  the  range  0..1. If the value is zero,
              saturation semantics are used: RGB colours are added in  proporition  to  their  associated  alpha
              value  until  the  total  alpha  is  saturated  (reaches 1), after which additional pixels have no
              further effect. For larger boost values, the effect is similar, but  any  non-zero  alpha  in  the
              output  is  boosted  to  the  given  minimum  value. The effect of this is that even very slightly
              populated pixels can be visually distinguished from unpopulated ones which may not be the case for
              saturation composition.

       animate=<table>
              If  not null, this parameter causes the command to create a sequence of plots instead of just one.
              The parameter value is a table with one row for each frame to be produced. Columns  in  the  table
              are  interpreted  as parameters which may take different values for each frame; the column name is
              the parameter name, and the value for a given frame is its value from  that  row.  Animating  like
              this is considerably more efficient than invoking the STILTS command in a loop.

              The location of the animation control table. This may take one of the following forms:

                * A filename.

                * A URL.

                * The  special  value  "-",  meaning standard input. In this case the input format must be given
                  explicitly using the afmt parameter. Note that not all formats can be streamed in this way.

                * A system command line with either a "<" character at the start, or a "|" character at the  end
                  ("<syscmd" or "syscmd|"). This executes the given pipeline and reads from its standard output.
                  This will probably only work on unix-like systems.
               In any case, compressed data in one of the supported compression formats (gzip, Unix compress  or
              bzip2) will be decompressed transparently.

       afmt=<in-format>
              Specifies  the  format of the animation control table as specified by parameter animate. The known
              formats are listed in SUN/256. This flag can be used if you know what format your table is in.  If
              it  has  the special value (auto) (the default), then an attempt will be made to detect the format
              of the table automatically. This cannot always be  done  correctly  however,  in  which  case  the
              program will exit with an error explaining which formats were attempted.

       astream=true|false
              If  set  true,  the  animation  control table specified by the animate parameter will be read as a
              stream. It is necessary to give the afmt  parameter  in  this  case.  Depending  on  the  required
              operations and processing mode, this may cause the read to fail (sometimes it is necessary to read
              the table more than once). It is not normally necessary to set this flag; in most cases  the  data
              will be streamed automatically if that is the best thing to do. However it can sometimes result in
              less resource usage when processing large files in certain formats (such as VOTable).

       acmd=<cmds>
              Specifies processing to be performed on the animation control  table  as  specified  by  parameter
              animate,  before  any other processing has taken place. The value of this parameter is one or more
              of the filter commands described in SUN/256. If more than one is given, they must be separated  by
              semicolon characters (";"). This parameter can be repeated multiple times on the same command line
              to build up a list of processing steps. The sequence of commands given in  this  way  defines  the
              processing pipeline which is performed on the table.

              Commands may alteratively be supplied in an external file, by using the indirection character '@'.
              Thus a value of "@filename" causes the file filename to be read for a list of filter  commands  to
              execute. The commands in the file may be separated by newline characters and/or semicolons.

       parallel=<int-value>
              Determines  how many threads will run in parallel if animation output is being produced. Only used
              if the animate parameter is supplied. The default value is the  number  of  processors  apparently
              available to the JVM.

       ylog=true|false
              If false (the default), the scale on the Y axis is linear, if true it is logarithmic.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. ylogZ affects
              only zone Z.

       yflip=true|false
              If true, the scale on the Y axis will increase in the opposite sense from  usual  (e.g.  right  to
              left rather than left to right).

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended  to  the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. yflipZ
              affects only zone Z.

       tlabel=<text>
              Gives a label to be used for annotating the Time axis. If not supplied no label will be drawn.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  tlabelZ
              affects only zone Z.

       ylabel=<text>
              Gives  a  label to be used for annotating axis Y A default value based on the plotted data will be
              used if no value is supplied.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  ylabelZ
              affects only zone Z.

       grid=true|false
              If  true,  grid  lines  are  drawn on the plot at positions determined by the major tick marks. If
              false, they are absent.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. gridZ affects
              only zone Z.

       tcrowd=<number>
              Determines how closely the tick marks are spaced on the Time axis. The default value is 1, meaning
              normal crowding. Larger values result in more ticks, and smaller values fewer  ticks.  Tick  marks
              will  not  however be spaced so closely that the labels overlap each other, so to get very closely
              spaced marks you may need to reduce the font size as well.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  tcrowdZ
              affects only zone Z.

       ycrowd=<number>
              Determines  how  closely  the tick marks are spaced on the Y axis. The default value is 1, meaning
              normal crowding. Larger values result in more ticks, and smaller values fewer  ticks.  Tick  marks
              will  not  however be spaced so closely that the labels overlap each other, so to get very closely
              spaced marks you may need to reduce the font size as well.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only  that  zone  is  affected,  e.g.  ycrowdZ
              affects only zone Z.

       tformat=iso-8601|year|mjd|unix
              Selects the way in which time values are represented when using them to label the time axis.

              The available options are:

                * iso-8601: ISO 8601 date, of the form yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.s (e.g. "2012-03-13T04")

                * year: Decimal year (e.g. "2012.197")

                * mjd: Modified Julian Date (e.g. "55999.2")

                * unix: Seconds since midnight of 1 Jan 1970 (e.g. "1331613420")

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. tformatZ
              affects only zone Z.

       minor=true|false
              If true, minor tick marks are painted along the axes as well as the major tick marks.  Minor  tick
              marks do not have associated grid lines.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is  appended  to  the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. minorZ
              affects only zone Z.

       texttype=plain|antialias|latex
              Determines how to turn label text into characters on the plot. Plain and Antialias both  take  the
              text  at  face  value,  but  Antialias  smooths the characters. LaTeX interprets the text as LaTeX
              source code and typesets it accordingly.

              When not using LaTeX, antialiased text usually looks nicer, but can be perceptibly slower to plot.
              At  time of writing, on MacOS antialiased text seems to be required to stop the writing coming out
              upside-down for non-horizontal text (MacOS java bug).

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone  is  affected,  e.g.  texttypeZ
              affects only zone Z.

       fontsize=<int-value>
              Size of the text font in points.

              If  a  zone  suffix  is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. fontsizeZ
              affects only zone Z.

       fontstyle=standard|serif|mono
              Font style for text.

              The available options are:

                * standard

                * serif

                * mono

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is  affected,  e.g.  fontstyleZ
              affects only zone Z.

       fontweight=plain|bold|italic|bold_italic
              Font weight for text.

              The available options are:

                * plain

                * bold

                * italic

                * bold_italic

              If  a  zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. fontweightZ
              affects only zone Z.

       tmin=<year-or-iso8601>
              Minimum value of the time coordinate plotted.  This  sets  the  value  before  any  subranging  is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              The  value may be set with a string that can be interpreted as a decimal year (e.g. "2007.521") or
              an ISO-8601 string (e.g. "2007-07-10T03:57:36", "2007-07-10T03"  or  "2007-07-10").  Note  however
              that  the numeric value of this configuration item if accessed programmatically is seconds since 1
              Jan 1970.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. tminZ affects
              only zone Z.

       tmax=<year-or-iso8601>
              Maximum  value  of  the  time  coordinate  plotted.  This  sets the value before any subranging is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              The value may be set with a string that can be interpreted as a decimal year (e.g. "2007.521")  or
              an  ISO-8601  string  (e.g.  "2007-07-10T03:57:36", "2007-07-10T03" or "2007-07-10"). Note however
              that the numeric value of this configuration item if accessed programmatically is seconds since  1
              Jan 1970.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. tmaxZ affects
              only zone Z.

       tsub=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a normalised adjustment to the data range of the Time axis. The value may be specified  as
              a  comma-separated  pair  of  two  numbers,  giving  the lower and upper bounds of the range of of
              interest respectively. This sub-range is applied to the data range that would otherwise  be  used,
              either  automatically  calculated  or explicitly supplied; zero corresponds to the lower bound and
              one to the upper.

              The default value "0,1" therefore has no effect. The range could be restricted to its  lower  half
              with the value 0,0.5.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. tsubZ affects
              only zone Z.

       ymin=<number>
              Minimum value of the data coordinate on the Y axis. This sets the value before any  subranging  is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. yminZ affects
              only zone Z.

       ymax=<number>
              Maximum value of the data coordinate on the Y axis. This sets the value before any  subranging  is
              applied. If not supplied, the value is determined from the plotted data.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. ymaxZ affects
              only zone Z.

       ysub=<lo>,<hi>
              Defines a normalised adjustment to the data range of the Y axis. The value may be specified  as  a
              comma-separated pair of two numbers, giving the lower and upper bounds of the range of of interest
              respectively. This sub-range is applied to the data range that would  otherwise  be  used,  either
              automatically  calculated  or  explicitly supplied; zero corresponds to the lower bound and one to
              the upper.

              The default value "0,1" therefore has no effect. The range could be restricted to its  lower  half
              with the value 0,0.5.

              If a zone suffix is appended to the parameter name, only that zone is affected, e.g. ysubZ affects
              only zone Z.

       navaxes=t|y|ty
              Determines the axes which are affected by the interactive navigation actions (pan and  zoom).  The
              default  is  t which means that the various mouse gestures will provide panning and zooming in the
              Time direction only. However, if it is set to ty mouse actions will affect both the horizontal and
              vertical axes.

       zoomfactor=<number>
              Sets  the  amount  by which the plot view zooms in or out for each unit of mouse wheel movement. A
              value of 1 means that mouse wheel zooming has no effect. A higher value means that the mouse wheel
              zooms faster and a value nearer 1 means it zooms slower. Values below 1 are not permitted.

       leglabelN=<text>
              Sets the presentation label for the layer with a given suffix. This is the text which is displayed
              in the legend, if present. Multiple layers may use the same label, in  which  case  they  will  be
              combined to form a single legend entry.

              If no value is supplied (the default), the suffix itself is used as the label.

       layerN=<layer-type> <layerN-specific-params>
              Selects  one of the available plot types for layerN. A plot consists of a plotting surface, set up
              using the various unsuffixed parameters of the plotting command, and zero  or  more  plot  layers.
              Each  layer  is introduced by a parameter with the name layer<N> where the suffix "<N>" is a label
              identifying the layer and is appended to all the  parameter  names  which  configure  that  layer.
              Suffixes may be any string, including the empty string.

              This parameter may take one of the following values, described in more detail in SUN/256:

                * mark

                * line

                * fill

                * quantile

                * grid

                * histogram

                * kde

                * knn

                * densogram

                * gaussian

                * yerror

                * spectrogram

                * label

                * function

              Each  of  these layer types comes with a list of type-specific parameters to define the details of
              that layer, including some or all of the following groups:

                * input table parameters (e.g. inN, icmdN)

                * coordinate params referring to input table columns (e.g. xN, yN)

                * layer style parameters (e.g. shadingN, colorN)

              Every parameter notionally carries the same suffix N. However, if the suffix is not  present,  the
              application  will  try  looking for a parameter with the same name with no suffix instead. In this
              way, if several layers have the same value for a given parameter (for instance input  table),  you
              can  supply it using one unsuffixed parameter to save having to supply several parameters with the
              same value but different suffixes.

       zoneN=<text>
              Defines which plot zone the layer with suffix N will appear in. This only makes sense  for  multi-
              zone  plots.  The actual value of the parameter is not significant, it just serves as a label, but
              different layers will end up in the same  plot  zone  if  they  give  the  same  values  for  this
              parameter.

SEE ALSO

       stilts(1)

       If the package stilts-doc is installed, the full documentation SUN/256 is available in HTML format:
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts-doc/sun256/index.html

VERSION

       STILTS version 3.1-2-debian

       This  is the Debian version of Stilts, which lack the support of some file formats and network protocols.
       For differences see
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian

AUTHOR

       Mark Taylor (Bristol University)

                                                    Mar 2017                                 STILTS-PLOT2TIME(1)