graphing lifelines

[Brock Massel]

Google this: "drawing graphs with dot"  dotguide.pdf
Look at page ~40ff.

Perhaps a simple script to generate graphviz input. Then let those
excellent tools do the heavy lifting. 



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(crossposted to sci.math)

I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating
the year of birth and death of a person:

(1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo")
(1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy")
(1831, 1891, "HP. Blavatksy")

And graph them out, in bars, annotating them with the person's name.

A simple spreadsheet would've worked, but they seem to start from
zero. Thus, I would only be able to indicate the span of life (by
subtracting death year from birth year).
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