xyscan provides not only an easy way to scan data points but also error bars. You can either treat the errors as asymmetric or symmetric depending on the values selected in the Error Scan Mode tab in the Tool Box (see below). However, even in the symmetric case, upper and lower (left and right) error bars are always scanned separately. xyscan provides different ways to derive symmetric errors from asymmetric ones.
The error scan modes are:
No Scan
Asymmetric
Symmetric(mean)
Symmetric (max)