PostGraphe: A System for the Generation of Statistical Graphics and Text
Massimo Fasciano, Guy Lapalme · 1996
Graphics and text have to be well integrated in order to achieve their full potential.A picture shows but a text describes.In a statistical report, graphics show the data that is analyzed in the text.This paper describes a system, called PostGraphe, which generates a report integrating graphics and text from a single set of writer's intentions.The system is given the data in tabular form as might be found in a spreadsheet; also input is a declaration of the types of values in the columns of the table.The user chooses the intentions to be conveyed in the graphics (e.g.compare two variables, show the evolution of a set of variables ...) and the system generates a report in IgTEX with the appropriate PostScript graphic files.