Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

If you really want a line plot, you can ignore the time column. The
first column is used as labels and the second as the values.

Le vendredi 16 janvier 2015 à 15:08 -0700, rodgos a écrit :
> Well, I do seem to be making some headay in this problem, albeit slowly..
> So far, Ive created a Gnumeric spreadsheet populated with 3 column and 8928
> lines of data. if I highlight all this, and click on 'Insert a chart', I get
> a box, which at first makes no sense. I click on 'line', since I want a line
> graph. . Select 'unmarked line plot', since I don't want markers. The the
> first breakthrough. If I click on 'Use first series as shared absissa' and
> the thing starts to make sense. The axes swing to place the data in column A
> (date0, as the absissa, and columns B and C (time and temperature) as the
> ordinate. Having, at last attained a logical structure I can go 'Forward'
> and insert the chart into the spreadsheet.
> Back to the spreadsheet I can now begin to organise the data, and the
> appearance. I have a graph of the temperature against the date, which is
> what I was after. With another of the time against the date, which is
> irrelevant, and which I shall delete. The next bit is detail work to
> regularise the scales  and overall values, set the colours, fonts titles and
> labels. Then go on to add rainfall as a bar chart
> I must have done this all before, but, over time, it must have been
> forgotten. If thiss is anything to go by, it was probably forgotten with
> some rlief. It does seem to be a very complicated and un-intuitive way to go
> about things. If it had been a manually drawn graph, the setting up would
> have taken just a few minutes.
>
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