Editing Grace (plotting tool) (section)

==History==
Grace is a descendant of the ACE/gr plotting tool (also known as Xvgr), based on Xview libraries from OpenWindows.<ref name="plasma-gate-grace">
{{citation
 | last = Stambulchik
 | first = Evgeny
 | date = 1998–2000
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
 | title = Grace
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
}}</ref> Xvgr was originally written by Paul Turner of Portland, Oregon,<ref name = "plasma-gate-xmgr">
{{citation
 | last = Stambulchik
 | first = Evgeny
 | year = 1997
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
 | title = Xmgr
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr
}}</ref> who continued development until version 4.00.<ref name = "plasma-gate-xmgr-doc-changes">
{{citation
 | author = Paul J Turner and ACE/gr development team
 | date = 1998-05-13
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
 | title = Xmgr: List of changes
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/doc/CHANGES.html
}}</ref> In 1996, development was taken over by the ACE/gr development team, led by Evgeny Stambulchik at the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]], [[Israel]].<ref name = "plasma-gate-xmgr-doc-intro">
{{citation
 | author = ACE/gr development team
 | date = 1998-05-10
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
 | title = Xmgr user guide: introduction
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/doc/intro.html#copyright
}}</ref><ref name = "plasma-gate-grace-userguide">
{{citation
 | author = Grace development team
 | date = 2008-09-20
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/doc/UsersGuide.html#ss1.1
 | title = Grace user guide: "What is Grace?"
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
}}</ref> Development of Xmgr was frozen at version 4.1.2 in 1998<ref name = "plasma-gate-xmgr" /> and the Grace project was started as a [[fork (software development)|fork]], released under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL]].<ref name = "grace-copyright-notice">
{{citation
 | author = Grace development team
 | date = 2008-05-21
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/COPYRIGHT.html
 | title = Grace copyright notice
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
}}</ref> The name stands for "GRaphing, Advanced Computation and Exploration of data" or "Grace Revamps ACE/gr"<ref name = "plasma-gate-grace-userguide" /> Turner still maintains a non-public version of Xmgr for internal use.<ref name = "plasma-gate-grace-userguide" /> The first version of Grace was numbered 5.0.0 and the latest stable version, 5.1.25 (released February 2015).<ref name="plasma-gate-grace" /> Whether the development of the next major release 6.0.0 is still in progress is unclear. The latest preview versions numbered 5.99.* were released in 2007.<ref name="plasma-gate-grace-devel-roadmap-6">
{{citation
 | author = Grace development team
 | date = 2006-05-08
 | url = http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/devel/roadmap-6.html
 | accessdate = 2009-06-20
 | title = Grace-6 Roadmap
}}</ref>