* added convenience functions to better handle plotting with gradients
* docstring correction, example name correction
* retrying to get documentation format right
* another attempt at cleaning up docs
* Don't hardcode timer type (and docs fixing attempt)
* more docstring re-formatting
* linebreaks in docstrings
* more documentation adjustments
* documentation pass
* some corrections to documentation
* more adjustments to documentation
* again?
* removed some whitespace and redundant blank lines, changed some checks '== None' to 'is None'
* fixed mis-spelling QColor as Qcolor