I believe this will fix MacOSX not displaying the icon. #30

The move from optparse to argparse caused a regression: positional
arguments could no longer intermix with optional arguments.  This fixes
that. (As of Python 3.7, parse_intermixed_args solves the problem,
but we want to support 2.6, maybe 2.5.)

Force the range to be -0.1 through 0.1. This is what matplotlib does
anyway, and this suppresses a warning.

Slightly simpler, smaller, and easier to style. As a bonus, you can
copy/paste them.

adding extra checks when variable data is loaded to prevent crashing and some cosmetic changes to html report output

added global and variable attributes to report pages; fixed bug in the io module that was causing global attributes to never be loaded; corrected the behavior for purple marking circles behind small numbers of mismatch points and added that behavior to some other kinds of mismatch plots

fixing variable sync in the gui and making a preliminary change to improve statistic display precision