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Graphs
The original Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX required an EGA or Hercules card to draw graphs. That isn't going to work today.
The solution we use is replacing the graphics routines with a library called ttydraw, based on libcaca. This is surprisingly effective, and draws graphs using ASCII art.
Note: If you export your graphs as CGM files, you can use them in your WordPerfect documents!
The standard shortcut to view a graph is F10. If you don't configure any options, Lotus will try to guess what you want. If you want to change options, such as labels, colors, ranges then use the /Graph
menu.
You can view a graph and a worksheet simultaneously, to do this use /Worksheet Window Graph
If you're plotting lots of data points, the labels can get crowded and difficult to read. Set the /Graph Options Scale Skip
factor to skip every nth label. This doesn't change what data is graphed, just how the labels are displayed.