Readme file for SerePlot Demo version 2.0

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What is it?

SerePlot is an object-oriented scientific plotting and data analysis
program that is scriptable with Apple Events.
 
SerePlot emphasizes graphical data exploration. Because it was written 
for scientists, engineers and other researchers, it has the presentation
and analysis tools needed by people in technical disciplines. Tasks like
curve fitting to arbitrary linear and nonlinear functions, Fourier
transforms, statistical and calculus operations can be performed with
ease. Unlike many scientific plotting packages, SerePlot has full
support for error analysis and propagates error values through any
mathematical operations you perform on your data. 

SerePlot also has a wide array of graphic tools for annotating your 
plots. There are a variety of plot symbols and line types that can be
displayed in color (on Macintosh computers that support color) and with
a variety of patterns.

A program is not truly powerful unless it is also easy to use. This is
where SerePlot's object-oriented nature helps you. Simply put,
everything in an SerePlot plot is a selectable object. You can select an
SerePlot graph by clicking on it. Once selected, you can change its
point or line style using a graphic menu. Want to fit a curve? Just
select it, and then use the curve-fit menu to select the type of fit you
want. SerePlot will take care of the rest.

SerePlot also offers a palette of graphic analysis tools that allow 
you to perform many types of mathematical analyses of your data
on-screen. Tools for integration, differentiation, point-finding,
statistical operations and other analysis tasks are available. You'll
find that SerePlot allows you to interact with and explore your data in
a much more direct and intuitive fashion than other plotting programs
you may have used. 

SerePlot is also the only scientific graphing package that supports
the Apple Event Object Model. This means that you can script SerePlot
with utilities like UserLand Frontier, AppleScript and QuickKeys. It
also means that SerePlot can exchange data with other Apple Event aware
programs like Excel 4.0 and FileMaker Pro 2.0.