GLE Users Guide

David Parfitt, david.parfitt@chch.ox.ac.uk

Oxford University Department of Physics

1. Introduction

• 1.1 What is GLE?
• 1.2 What do I need to use GLE?
• 1.3 Where are we going?

2. Technical Details

• 2.1 Download and installation
• 2.2 Working with GLE

3. Simple Applications

• 3.1 Hello world
• 3.2 More text examples
• 3.3 All shapes and sizes
• 3.4 Lines and line widths

4. Formal development

• 4.1 Variables and expressions
• 4.2 Conditional logic and programming loops
• 4.3 Subroutines

5. The graph module

• 5.1 Graph basics
• 5.2 Examples of formatting
• 5.3 Plotting graphs from user defined formulae
• 5.4 Bar charts
• 5.5 Scientific graphs
• 5.6 The key module
• 5.7 Integrating graphs and diagrams

6. More complex examples

• 6.1 Adding existing graphics to a GLE script
• 6.2 Coordinate transforms
• 6.3 Mathematical curves
• 6.4 Path drawing
• 6.5 File handling

7. Appendices

• 7.1 List of available functions
• 7.2 Special LaTeX characters
• 7.3 Font list
• 7.4 Command index
• 7.5 GLE wall chart