Making Plots

Note that when drawing a histogram in a canvas, you only append a reference to a histogram to the list of objects to be drawn, when the canvas is drawn. Thus, if you change the histogram, you'll also change the appearance of the histogram previously drawn on the canvas (when redrawing the canvas, e.g. for output into a ps-file). You'll need to h1->DrawCopy() in order to clone the histogram before appending a reference to the list of objects to be drawn.

Example:
c0->Clear();
c0->Divide(2,2);
c0->cd(1);
h1->DrawCopy(); // if you used h1->Draw(), you'd end up with two identical histograms in the eps-file
c0->cd(2);
h1->SetAxisRange(0., 0.5);
h1->Draw();
c1->SaveAs("c1.eps");

How to get a reasonable appearance
The default style of ROOT is not to everybody's tast. Switch it off with
gROOT->SetStyle("Plain");
gROOT->ForceStyle();
You'll get something quite similar to PAW.

How to get reasonable colors
Ensure that your Netscape has not emptied your color map, and then
gStyle->SetPalette(1);
Colors can be accessed by numbers (like in PAW) or with names:
enum EColor { kWhite, kBlack, kRed, kGreen, kBlue, kYellow, kMagenta, kCyan };

How to divide a Canvas into smaller canvases (aka zone 2 2)
Assuming you have a canvas c1, the CINT way is
c1->Clear();
c1->Divide(2,2); // divisions in x and y
The GUI-way is to right-button click into the Canvas context menu and select Divide.

How to get greek characters into an axis title
h1->SetXTitle("`f#[degrees]");

How to get a logarithmic axis
This is not in a histogram class, but a feature of pad, hence do
gPad->SetLogx(1); // or SetLogy(1) or SetLogz(1). Turn off with SetLogx(0) ...
gPad->Modified()
Right-button clicking into the Canvas context menu gives you access to the same member functions.

How to get a grid
Again a pad feature,hence
gPad->SetGrid(1); // both axes get a grid, don't forget the gPad->Modified() (see below)
gPad->SetGridx(1); // x-axis only
gPad->SetGridy(1); // y-axis only
gPad->Modified();
Same functionality from the Canvas context menu

How to set th minimum and maximum on a axis
h1->SetMinimum(0.5);
h1->SetMaximum(10.);

How to draw only part of the histogram (aka h/pl 1(10.:20.))
In CINT, do
h1->SetAxisRange(0.5, 1.5); // if you want to display from 0.5 to 1.5

You can also do it with the GUI, moving the cursor over the axis and left-clicking.A pair of lines will appear, one staying where you started, the other following your mouse movements.

How to get a Legend
From CINT (or a macro) do the following (assuming you have a histogram h1):
pl = new Tlegend(0.4,0.2,0.85,0.35); // coordinates are in fractions of pad dimensions
pl->SetHeader("Legend Title");
pl->SetTextSize(0.04); // set size of text
pl->SetMarkerSize(1.4); // increase markersize so that they are visible
pl->SetFillColor(0); // Have a white background
ple = pl->AddEntry(h1, "text 1", "p"); // p shows points, other options exist (Check documentation)
pl->Draw()

How to get a box with text
A text box with lines of text is produced with
pt = new TPaveText(0.20,0.7,0.5,0.87, "NDC"); // NDC sets coordinates relative to pad dimensions
pt->SetFillColor(0); // text is black on white
pt->SetTextSize(0.04);
pt->SetTextAlign(12);
text = pt->AddText("Whatever you want");

How to make non-default axis labels with larger symbols and greek letters
The following shows how to get large labels, axis titles, greek fonts onto a histogram
gPad->SetLeftMargin(0.15); // experiment with the best value for you. Depends on font size, ..
gPad->SetBottomMargin(0.15);

h->SetLabelSize(0.05, "y");
h->GetYaxis()->SetTitleSize(0.05);
h->SetLabelSize(0.05, "x");
h->GetXaxis()->SetTitleSize(0.05);

h1->SetXTitle("`f#[degrees]"); // just like PAW, see below or other possibilities
h1->SetYTitle("Entries / bin");