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File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plsdimap; Set up transformation from metafile coordinates,  Next: plsdiori; Set plot orientation,  Prev: plsdidev; Set parameters that define current device-space window,  Up: The Common API for PLplot

18.120 plsdimap: Set up transformation from metafile coordinates
================================================================

     plsdimap ( dimxmin , dimxmax , dimymin , dimymax , dimxpmm ,
     dimypmm );

   Set up transformation from metafile coordinates.  The size of the
plot is scaled so as to preserve aspect ratio.  This isn’t intended to
be a general-purpose facility just yet (not sure why the user would need
it, for one).

‘dimxmin’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘dimxmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘dimymin’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘dimymax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘dimxpmm’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘dimypmm’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

   Redacted form: ‘plsdimap(dimxmin, dimxmax, dimymin, dimymax, dimxpmm,
dimypmm)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.121 plsdiori: Set plot orientation
=====================================

     plsdiori ( rot );

   Set plot orientation parameter which is multiplied by 90 degrees to
obtain the angle of rotation.  Note, arbitrary rotation parameters such
as 0.2 (corresponding to 18 degrees) are possible, but the usual values
for the rotation parameter are 0., 1., 2., and 3.  corresponding to 0
degrees (landscape mode), 90 degrees (portrait mode), 180 degrees
(seascape mode), and 270 degrees (upside-down mode).  If ‘plsdiori’
(*note plsdiori; Set plot orientation::) is not called the default value
of ‘ ‘rot’ ’ is 0.

   N.B. aspect ratio is unaffected by calls to ‘plsdiori’ (*note
plsdiori; Set plot orientation::).  So you will probably want to change
the aspect ratio to a value suitable for the plot orientation using a
call to ‘plsdidev’ (*note plsdidev; Set parameters that define current
device-space window::) or the command-line options ‘ ‘-a’ ’ or ‘
‘-freeaspect’ ’.  For more documentation of those options see *note
Command Line Arguments::.  Such command-line options can be set
internally using ‘plsetopt’ (*note plsetopt; Set any command-line
option::) or set directly using the command line and parsed using a call
to ‘plparseopts’ (*note plparseopts; Parse command-line arguments::).

‘rot’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Plot orientation parameter.

   Redacted form: ‘plsdiori(rot)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.122 plsdiplt: Set parameters that define current plot-space window
=====================================================================

     plsdiplt ( xmin , ymin , xmax , ymax );

   Set relative minima and maxima that define the current plot-space
window.  If ‘plsdiplt’ (*note plsdiplt; Set parameters that define
current plot-space window::) is not called the default values of ‘
‘xmin’ ’, ‘ ‘ymin’ ’, ‘ ‘xmax’ ’, and ‘ ‘ymax’ ’ are 0., 0., 1., and 1.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative minimum in x.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative minimum in y.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative maximum in x.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative maximum in y.

   Redacted form: ‘plsdiplt(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)’

   This function is used in example 31.


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18.123 plsdiplz: Set parameters incrementally (zoom mode) that define current plot-space window
===============================================================================================

     plsdiplz ( xmin , ymin , xmax , ymax );

   Set relative minima and maxima incrementally (zoom mode) that define
the current plot-space window.  This function has the same effect as
‘plsdiplt’ (*note plsdiplt; Set parameters that define current
plot-space window::) if that function has not been previously called.
Otherwise, this function implements zoom mode using the transformation
‘min_used = old_min + old_length*min ’ and ‘max_used = old_min +
old_length*max ’ for each axis.  For example, if ‘min = 0.05’ and ‘max =
0.95’ for each axis, repeated calls to ‘plsdiplz’ (*note plsdiplz; Set
parameters incrementally [zoom mode] that define current plot-space
window::) will zoom in by 10 per cent for each call.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative (incremental) minimum in x.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative (incremental) minimum in y.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative (incremental) maximum in x.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Relative (incremental) maximum in y.

   Redacted form: ‘plsdiplz(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)’

   This function is used in example 31.


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18.124 plsdrawmode: Set drawing mode (depends on device support!)
=================================================================

     plsdrawmode (mode);

   Set drawing mode.  Note only one device driver (cairo) currently
supports this at the moment.  See also ‘plgdrawmode’ (*note plgdrawmode;
Get drawing mode [depends on device support!]::).

‘mode’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Control variable which species the drawing mode (one of
     ‘PL_DRAWMODE_DEFAULT’, ‘PL_DRAWMODE_REPLACE’, or ‘PL_DRAWMODE_XOR’)
     to use.

   Redacted form: ‘plsdrawmode(mode)’

   This function is used in example 34.


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18.125 plseed: Set seed for internal random number generator.
=============================================================

     plseed ( seed );

   Set the seed for the internal random number generator.  See ‘plrandd’
(*note plrandd; Random number generator returning a real random number
in the range [0;1]::) for further details.

‘seed’ (‘unsigned int’, input)
     Seed for random number generator.

   Redacted form: ‘plseed(seed)’

   This function is used in example 21.


File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plsesc; Set the escape character for text strings,  Next: plsetopt; Set any command-line option,  Prev: plseed; Set seed for internal random number generator_,  Up: The Common API for PLplot

18.126 plsesc: Set the escape character for text strings
========================================================

     plsesc ( esc );

   Set the escape character for text strings.  From C (in contrast to
Fortran, see ‘plsescfortran’ (*note plsesc; Set the escape character for
text strings for Fortran::)) you pass ‘‘esc’’ as a character.  Only
selected characters are allowed to prevent the user from shooting
himself in the foot (For example, a ‘\’ isn’t allowed since it conflicts
with C’s use of backslash as a character escape).  Here are the allowed
escape characters and their corresponding decimal ASCII values:

   • ‘!’, ASCII 33

   • ‘#’, ASCII 35

   • ‘$’, ASCII 36

   • ‘%’, ASCII 37

   • ‘&’, ASCII 38

   • ‘*’, ASCII 42

   • ‘@’, ASCII 64

   • ‘^’, ASCII 94

   • ‘~’, ASCII 126

‘esc’ (‘char’, input)
     Escape character.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plsesc(esc)’

   • Perl/PDL: Not available?

   This function is used in example 29.


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18.127 plsetopt: Set any command-line option
============================================

     PLINT plsetopt ( opt , optarg );

   Set any command-line option internally from a program before it
invokes ‘plinit’ (*note plinit; Initialize PLplot::).  ‘opt’ is the name
of the command-line option and ‘optarg’ is the corresponding
command-line option argument.

‘opt’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the command-line option.

‘optarg’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the argument of the
     command-line option.

   This function returns 0 on success.

   Redacted form: ‘plsetopt(opt, optarg)’

   This function is used in example 14.


File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plsfam; Set family file parameters,  Next: plsfci; Set FCI [font characterization integer],  Prev: plsetopt; Set any command-line option,  Up: The Common API for PLplot

18.128 plsfam: Set family file parameters
=========================================

     plsfam ( fam , num , bmax );

   Sets variables dealing with output file familying.  Does nothing if
familying not supported by the driver.  This routine, if used, must be
called before initializing PLplot.  See *note Family File Output:: for
more information.

‘fam’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Family flag (Boolean).  If nonzero, familying is enabled.

‘num’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Current family file number.

‘bmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Maximum file size (in bytes) for a family file.

   Redacted form: ‘plsfam(fam, num, bmax)’

   This function is used in examples 14 and 31.


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18.129 plsfci: Set FCI (font characterization integer)
======================================================

     plsfci ( fci );

   Sets font characteristics to be used at the start of the next string
using the FCI approach.  See *note FCI:: for more information.  Note,
‘plsfont’ (*note plsfont; Set family; style and weight of the current
font::) (which calls ‘plsfci’ (*note plsfci; Set FCI [font
characterization integer]::) internally) provides a more user-friendly
API for setting the font characterisitics.

‘fci’ (‘‘PLUNICODE’ (*note PLUNICODE-type::)’, input)
     PLUNICODE (unsigned 32-bit integer) value of FCI.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plsfci(fci)’

   • Perl/PDL: Not available?

   This function is used in example 23.


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18.130 plsfnam: Set output file name
====================================

     plsfnam ( fnam );

   Sets the current output file name, if applicable.  If the file name
has not been specified and is required by the driver, the user will be
prompted for it.  If using the X-windows output driver, this sets the
display name.  This routine, if used, must be called before initializing
PLplot.

‘fnam’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the file name.

   Redacted form: ‘plsfnam(fnam)’

   This function is used in examples 1 and 20.


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18.131 plsfont: Set family, style and weight of the current font
================================================================

     plsfont ( family , style , weight );

   Sets the current font.  See *note FCI:: for more information on font
selection.

‘family’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Font family to select for the current font.  The available values
     are given by the PL_FCI_* constants in ‘plplot.h’.  Current options
     are PL_FCI_SANS, PL_FCI_SERIF, PL_FCI_MONO, PL_FCI_SCRIPT and
     PL_FCI_SYMBOL. A negative value signifies that the font family
     should not be altered.

‘style’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Font style to select for the current font.  The available values
     are given by the PL_FCI_* constants in ‘plplot.h’.  Current options
     are PL_FCI_UPRIGHT, PL_FCI_ITALIC and PL_FCI_OBLIQUE. A negative
     value signifies that the font style should not be altered.

‘weight’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Font weight to select for the current font.  The available values
     are given by the PL_FCI_* constants in ‘plplot.h’.  Current options
     are PL_FCI_MEDIUM and PL_FCI_BOLD. A negative value signifies that
     the font weight should not be altered.

   Redacted form: ‘plsfont(family, style, weight)’

   This function is used in example 23.


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18.132 plshades: Shade regions on the basis of value
====================================================

     plshades ( a , nx , ny , defined , xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax ,
     clevel , nlevel , fill_width , cont_color , cont_width , fill ,
     rectangular , pltr , pltr_data );

   Shade regions on the basis of value.  This is the high-level routine
for making continuous color shaded plots with cmap1 while ‘plshade’
(*note plshade; Shade individual region on the basis of value::) should
be used to plot individual shaded regions using either cmap0 or cmap1.
‘examples/;<language>/x16*’ shows how to use ‘plshades’ (*note plshades;
Shade regions on the basis of value::) for each of our supported
languages.

‘a’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix containing function values to plot.  Should have
     dimensions of ‘nx’ by ‘ny’.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     First dimension of matrix "a".

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Second dimension of matrix "a".

‘defined’ (‘‘PLDEFINED_callback’ (*note PLDEFINED_callback-type::)’, input)
     Callback function specifying the region that should be plotted in
     the shade plot.  This function accepts x and y coordinates as input
     arguments and must return 1 if the point is to be included in the
     shade plot and 0 otherwise.  If you want to plot the entire shade
     plot (the usual case), this argument should be set to NULL.

‘xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     See the discussion of ‘pltr’ below for how these arguments are used
     (only for the special case when the callback function ‘pltr’ is not
     supplied).

‘clevel’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the data levels corresponding to the edges of
     each shaded region that will be plotted by this function.  To work
     properly the levels should be monotonic.

‘nlevel’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of shades plus 1 (i.e., the number of shade edge values in
     ‘‘clevel’’).

‘fill_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines the line width used by the fill pattern.

‘cont_color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines cmap0 pen color used for contours defining edges of shaded
     regions.  The pen color is only temporary set for the contour
     drawing.  Set this value to zero or less if no shade edge contours
     are wanted.

‘cont_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines line width used for contours defining edges of shaded
     regions.  This value may not be honored by all drivers.  The pen
     width is only temporary set for the contour drawing.  Set this
     value to zero or less if no shade edge contours are wanted.

‘fill’ (‘‘PLFILL_callback’ (*note PLFILL_callback-type::)’, input)
     Callback routine used to fill the region.  Use ‘plfill’ (*note
     plfill; Draw filled polygon::) for this purpose.

‘rectangular’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     Set ‘‘rectangular’’ to true if rectangles map to rectangles after
     coordinate transformation with ‘‘pltrl’’.  Otherwise, set
     ‘‘rectangular’’ to false.  If ‘‘rectangular’’ is set to true,
     plshade tries to save time by filling large rectangles.  This
     optimization fails if the coordinate transformation distorts the
     shape of rectangles.  For example a plot in polar coordinates has
     to have ‘‘rectangular’’ set to false.

‘pltr’ (‘‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::)’, input)
     A callback function that defines the transformation between the
     zero-based indices of the matrix ‘‘a’’ and world coordinates.  If
     ‘pltr’ is not supplied (e.g., is set to NULL in the C case), then
     the x indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘xmin’ through
     ‘xmax’ and the y indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘ymin’
     through ‘ymax’.

     For the C case, transformation functions are provided in the PLplot
     library: ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping::) for the identity mapping, and
     ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to
     world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays::) and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid
     to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays
     [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::) for arbitrary
     mappings respectively defined by vectors and matrices.  In
     addition, C callback routines for the transformation can be
     supplied by the user such as the ‘mypltr’ function in
     ‘examples/c/x09c.c’ which provides a general linear transformation
     between index coordinates and world coordinates.

     For languages other than C you should consult *note Supported
     computer languages: Supported computer languages. for the details
     concerning how ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
     PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) arguments are interfaced.  However, in
     general, a particular pattern of callback-associated arguments such
     as a ‘tr’ vector with 6 elements; ‘xg’ and ‘yg’ vectors; or ‘xg’
     and ‘yg’ matrices are respectively interfaced to a
     linear-transformation routine similar to the above ‘mypltr’
     function; ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::); and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear
     interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::).
     Furthermore, some of our more sophisticated bindings (see, e.g.,
     *note Fortran Language::) support native language callbacks for
     handling index to world-coordinate transformations.  Examples of
     these various approaches are given in ‘examples/<language>x09*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x16*’, ‘examples/<language>x20*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x21*’, and ‘examples/<language>x22*’, for all
     our supported languages.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Extra parameter to help pass information to ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0;
     Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping::), ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::), ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation
     for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::), or whatever
     routine that is externally supplied.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plshades(a, defined, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, clevel,
     fill_width, cont_color, cont_width, fill, rectangular, pltr,
     pltr_data)’

   • Perl/PDL: ‘plshades(a, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, clevel, fill_width,
     cont_color, cont_width, fill, rectangular, defined, pltr,
     pltr_data)’

   This function is used in examples 16, 21, and 22.


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18.133 plshade: Shade individual region on the basis of value
=============================================================

     plshade ( a , nx , ny , defined , xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax ,
     shade_min , shade_max , sh_cmap , sh_color , sh_width , min_color ,
     min_width , max_color , max_width , fill , rectangular , pltr ,
     pltr_data );

   Shade individual region on the basis of value.  Use ‘plshades’ (*note
plshades; Shade regions on the basis of value::) if you want to shade a
number of contiguous regions using continuous colors.  In particular the
edge contours are treated properly in ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade
regions on the basis of value::).  If you attempt to do contiguous
regions with ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the
basis of value::) the contours at the edge of the shade are partially
obliterated by subsequent plots of contiguous shaded regions.

‘a’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix containing function values to plot.  Should have
     dimensions of ‘nx’ by ‘ny’.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     First dimension of the matrix "a".

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Second dimension of the matrix "a".

‘defined’ (‘‘PLDEFINED_callback’ (*note PLDEFINED_callback-type::)’, input)
     Callback function specifying the region that should be plotted in
     the shade plot.  This function accepts x and y coordinates as input
     arguments and must return 1 if the point is to be included in the
     shade plot and 0 otherwise.  If you want to plot the entire shade
     plot (the usual case), this argument should be set to NULL.

‘xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     See the discussion of ‘pltr’ below for how these arguments are used
     (only for the special case when the callback function ‘pltr’ is not
     supplied).

‘shade_min’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines the lower end of the interval to be shaded.  If shade_max ≤
     shade_min, ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the
     basis of value::) does nothing.

‘shade_max’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines the upper end of the interval to be shaded.  If shade_max ≤
     shade_min, ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the
     basis of value::) does nothing.

‘sh_cmap’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines color map.  If ‘‘sh_cmap’=0’, then ‘‘sh_color’’ is
     interpreted as a cmap0 (integer) index.  If ‘‘sh_cmap’=1’, then
     ‘‘sh_color’’ is interpreted as a cmap1 argument in the range
     (0.0-1.0).

‘sh_color’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines color map index with integer value if cmap0 or value in
     range (0.0-1.0) if cmap1.

‘sh_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines width used by the fill pattern.

‘min_color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘min_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘max_color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘max_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘fill’ (‘‘PLFILL_callback’ (*note PLFILL_callback-type::)’, input)
     Routine used to fill the region.  Use ‘plfill’ (*note plfill; Draw
     filled polygon::).  Future version of PLplot may have other fill
     routines.

‘rectangular’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     Set ‘ ‘rectangular’ ’ to true if rectangles map to rectangles after
     coordinate transformation with ‘‘pltrl’’.  Otherwise, set
     ‘‘rectangular’’ to false.  If ‘‘rectangular’’ is set to true,
     plshade tries to save time by filling large rectangles.  This
     optimization fails if the coordinate transformation distorts the
     shape of rectangles.  For example a plot in polar coordinates has
     to have ‘‘rectangular’’ set to false.

‘pltr’ (‘‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::)’, input)
     A callback function that defines the transformation between the
     zero-based indices of the matrix ‘‘a’’ and world coordinates.  If
     ‘pltr’ is not supplied (e.g., is set to NULL in the C case), then
     the x indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘xmin’ through
     ‘xmax’ and the y indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘ymin’
     through ‘ymax’.

     For the C case, transformation functions are provided in the PLplot
     library: ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping::) for the identity mapping, and
     ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to
     world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays::) and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid
     to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays
     [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::) for arbitrary
     mappings respectively defined by vectors and matrices.  In
     addition, C callback routines for the transformation can be
     supplied by the user such as the ‘mypltr’ function in
     ‘examples/c/x09c.c’ which provides a general linear transformation
     between index coordinates and world coordinates.

     For languages other than C you should consult *note Supported
     computer languages: Supported computer languages. for the details
     concerning how ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
     PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) arguments are interfaced.  However, in
     general, a particular pattern of callback-associated arguments such
     as a ‘tr’ vector with 6 elements; ‘xg’ and ‘yg’ vectors; or ‘xg’
     and ‘yg’ matrices are respectively interfaced to a
     linear-transformation routine similar to the above ‘mypltr’
     function; ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::); and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear
     interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::).
     Furthermore, some of our more sophisticated bindings (see, e.g.,
     *note Fortran Language::) support native language callbacks for
     handling index to world-coordinate transformations.  Examples of
     these various approaches are given in ‘examples/<language>x09*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x16*’, ‘examples/<language>x20*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x21*’, and ‘examples/<language>x22*’, for all
     our supported languages.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Extra parameter to help pass information to ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0;
     Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping::), ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::), ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation
     for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::), or whatever
     routine that is externally supplied.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plshade(a, defined, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, shade_min,
     shade_max, sh_cmap, sh_color, sh_width, min_color, min_width,
     max_color, max_width, fill, rectangular, pltr, pltr_data)’

   This function is used in example 15.


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18.134 plslabelfunc: Assign a function to use for generating custom axis labels
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     plslabelfunc ( label_func , label_data );

   This function allows a user to provide their own function to provide
axis label text.  The user function is given the numeric value for a
point on an axis and returns a string label to correspond with that
value.  Custom axis labels can be enabled by passing appropriate
arguments to ‘plenv’ (*note plenv; Set up standard window and draw
box::), ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box with axes; etc::), ‘ plbox3’
(*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes; etc; in 3-d::) and similar
functions.

‘label_func’ (‘‘PLLABEL_FUNC_callback’ (*note PLLABEL_FUNC_callback-type::)’, input)
     This is the custom label function.  In order to reset to the
     default labelling, set this to ‘NULL’.  The labelling function
     parameters are, in order:

     ‘axis’
          This indicates which axis a label is being requested for.  The
          value will be one of ‘PL_X_AXIS’, ‘PL_Y_AXIS’ or ‘PL_Z_AXIS’.

     ‘value’
          This is the value along the axis which is being labelled.

     ‘label_text’
          The string representation of the label ‘value’.

     ‘length’
          The maximum length in characters allowed for ‘label_text’.

‘label_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     This parameter may be used to pass data to the ‘label_func’
     function.

   This function is used in example 19.


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18.135 plsmaj: Set length of major ticks
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     plsmaj ( def , scale );

   This sets up the length of the major ticks.  The actual length is the
product of the default length and a scaling factor as for character
height.

‘def’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The default length of a major tick in millimeters, should be set to
     zero if the default length is to remain unchanged.

‘scale’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Scale factor to be applied to default to get actual tick length.

   Redacted form: ‘plsmaj(def, scale)’

   This function is used in example 29.


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18.136 plsmem: Set the memory area to be plotted (RGB)
======================================================

     plsmem ( maxx , maxy , plotmem );

   Set the memory area to be plotted (with the ‘mem’ or ‘memcairo’
driver) as the ‘dev’ member of the stream structure.  Also set the
number of pixels in the memory passed in ‘plotmem’, which is a block of
memory ‘maxy’ by ‘maxx’ by 3 bytes long, say: 480 x 640 x 3 (Y, X, RGB)

   This memory will have to be freed by the user!

‘maxx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Size of memory area in the X coordinate.

‘maxy’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Size of memory area in the Y coordinate.

‘plotmem’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Pointer to the beginning of a user-supplied writeable memory area.

   Redacted form: ‘plsmem(maxx, maxy, plotmem)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.137 plsmema: Set the memory area to be plotted (RGBA)
========================================================

     plsmema ( maxx , maxy , plotmem );

   Set the memory area to be plotted (with the ‘memcairo’ driver) as the
‘dev’ member of the stream structure.  Also set the number of pixels in
the memory passed in ‘plotmem’, which is a block of memory ‘maxy’ by
‘maxx’ by 4 bytes long, say: 480 x 640 x 4 (Y, X, RGBA)

   This memory will have to be freed by the user!

‘maxx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Size of memory area in the X coordinate.

‘maxy’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Size of memory area in the Y coordinate.

‘plotmem’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Pointer to the beginning of a user-supplied writeable memory area.

   Redacted form: ‘plsmema(maxx, maxy, plotmem)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.138 plsmin: Set length of minor ticks
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     plsmin ( def , scale );

   This sets up the length of the minor ticks and the length of the
terminals on error bars.  The actual length is the product of the
default length and a scaling factor as for character height.

‘def’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The default length of a minor tick in millimeters, should be set to
     zero if the default length is to remain unchanged.

‘scale’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Scale factor to be applied to default to get actual tick length.

   Redacted form: ‘plsmin(def, scale)’

   This function is used in example 29.


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18.139 plsori: Set orientation
==============================

     plsori ( ori );

   Set integer plot orientation parameter.  This function is identical
to ‘plsdiori’ (*note plsdiori; Set plot orientation::) except for the
type of the argument, and should be used in the same way.  See the
documentation of ‘plsdiori’ (*note plsdiori; Set plot orientation::) for
details.

‘ori’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Orientation value (0 for landscape, 1 for portrait, etc.)  The
     value is multiplied by 90 degrees to get the angle.

   Redacted form: ‘plsori(ori)’

   This function is used in example 3.


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18.140 plspage: Set page parameters
===================================

     plspage ( xp , yp , xleng , yleng , xoff , yoff );

   Sets the page configuration (optional).  If an individual parameter
is zero then that parameter value is not updated.  Not all parameters
are recognized by all drivers and the interpretation is
device-dependent.  The X-window driver uses the length and offset
parameters to determine the window size and location.  The length and
offset values are expressed in units that are specific to the current
driver.  For instance: screen drivers will usually interpret them as
number of pixels, whereas printer drivers will usually use mm.

   This routine, if used, must be called before initializing PLplot.  It
may be called at later times for interactive drivers to change only the
dpi for subsequent redraws which you can force via a call to ‘plreplot’
(*note plreplot; Replays contents of plot buffer to current
device/file::).  If this function is not called then the page size
defaults to landscape A4 for drivers which use real world page sizes and
744 pixels wide by 538 pixels high for raster drivers.  The default
value for dx and dy is 90 pixels per inch for raster drivers.

‘xp’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Number of pixels per inch (DPI), x.  Used only by raster drivers,
     ignored by drivers which use "real world" units (e.g.  mm).

‘yp’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Number of pixels per inch (DPI), y.  Used only by raster drivers,
     ignored by drivers which use "real world" units (e.g.  mm).

‘xleng’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Page length, x.

‘yleng’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Page length, y.

‘xoff’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Page offset, x.

‘yoff’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Page offset, y.

   Redacted form: ‘plspage(xp, yp, xleng, yleng, xoff, yoff)’

   This function is used in examples 14 and 31.


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18.141 plspal0: Set the cmap0 palette using the specified cmap0*.pal format file
================================================================================

     plspal0 ( filename );

   Set the cmap0 palette using the specified ‘cmap0*.pal’ format file.

‘filename’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the name of the ‘cmap0*.pal’
     file.  If this string is empty, use the default ‘cmap0*.pal’ file.

   Redacted form: ‘plspal0(filename)’

   This function is in example 16.


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18.142 plspal1: Set the cmap1 palette using the specified cmap1*.pal format file
================================================================================

     plspal1 ( filename , interpolate );

   Set the cmap1 palette using the specified ‘cmap1*.pal’ format file.

‘filename’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the name of the ‘cmap1*.pal’
     file.  If this string is empty, use the default ‘cmap1*.pal’ file.

‘interpolate’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     If this parameter is true, the columns containing the intensity
     index, r, g, b, alpha and alt_hue_path in the ‘cmap1*.pal’ file are
     used to set the cmap1 palette with a call to ‘plscmap1la’ (*note
     plscmap1la; Set cmap1 colors and alpha transparency using a
     piece-wise linear relationship::).  (The ‘cmap1*.pal’ header
     contains a flag which controls whether the r, g, b data sent to
     ‘plscmap1la’ (*note plscmap1la; Set cmap1 colors and alpha
     transparency using a piece-wise linear relationship::) are
     interpreted as HLS or RGB.)

     If this parameter is false, the intensity index and alt_hue_path
     columns are ignored and the r, g, b (interpreted as RGB), and alpha
     columns of the ‘cmap1*.pal’ file are used instead to set the cmap1
     palette directly with a call to ‘plscmap1a’ (*note plscmap1a; Set
     semitransparent cmap1 RGBA colors_::).

   Redacted form: ‘plspal1(filename, interpolate)’

   This function is used in example 16.


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18.143 plspause: Set the pause (on end-of-page) status
======================================================

     plspause ( pause );

   Set the pause (on end-of-page) status.

‘pause’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     If ‘ ‘pause’ ’ is true there will be a pause on end-of-page for
     those drivers which support this.  Otherwise there is no pause.

   Redacted form: ‘plspause(pause)’

   This function is in examples 14,20.


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18.144 plsstrm: Set current output stream
=========================================

     plsstrm ( strm );

   Sets the number of the current output stream.  The stream number
defaults to 0 unless changed by this routine.  The first use of this
routine must be followed by a call initializing PLplot (e.g.  ‘plstar’
(*note plstar; Initialization::)).

‘strm’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     The current stream number.

   Redacted form: ‘plsstrm(strm)’

   This function is examples 1,14,20.


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18.145 plssub: Set the number of subpages in x and y
====================================================

     plssub ( nx , ny );

   Set the number of subpages in x and y.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of windows in x direction (i.e., number of window columns).

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of windows in y direction (i.e., number of window rows).

   Redacted form: ‘plssub(nx, ny)’

   This function is examples 1,2,14,21,25,27.


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18.146 plssym: Set symbol size
==============================

     plssym ( def , scale );

   This sets up the size of all subsequent symbols drawn by ‘plpoin’
(*note plpoin; Plot a glyph at the specified points::) and ‘plsym’
(*note plsym; Plot a glyph at the specified points::).  The actual
height of a symbol is the product of the default symbol size and a
scaling factor as for the character height.

‘def’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The default height of a symbol in millimeters, should be set to
     zero if the default height is to remain unchanged.

‘scale’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Scale factor to be applied to default to get actual symbol height.

   Redacted form: ‘plssym(def, scale)’

   This function is used in example 29.


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18.147 plstar: Initialization
=============================

     plstar ( nx , ny );

   Initializing the plotting package.  The program prompts for the
device keyword or number of the desired output device.  Hitting a RETURN
in response to the prompt is the same as selecting the first device.  If
only one device is enabled when PLplot is installed, ‘plstar’ (*note
plstar; Initialization::) will issue no prompt.  The output device is
divided into ‘ ‘nx’ ’ by ‘ ‘ny’ ’ subpages, each of which may be used
independently.  The subroutine ‘pladv’ (*note pladv; Advance the
[sub-]page::) is used to advance from one subpage to the next.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of subpages to divide output page in the x direction.

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of subpages to divide output page in the y direction.

   Redacted form: ‘plstar(nx, ny)’

   This function is used in example 1.


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18.148 plstart: Initialization
==============================

     plstart ( devname , nx , ny );

   Alternative to ‘plstar’ (*note plstar; Initialization::) for
initializing the plotting package.  The device name keyword for the
desired output device must be supplied as an argument.  These keywords
are the same as those printed out by ‘plstar’ (*note plstar;
Initialization::).  If the requested device is not available, or if the
input string is empty or begins with “?”, the prompted start up of
‘plstar’ (*note plstar; Initialization::) is used.  This routine also
divides the output device page into ‘ ‘nx’ ’ by ‘ ‘ny’ ’ subpages, each
of which may be used independently.  The subroutine ‘pladv’ (*note
pladv; Advance the [sub-]page::) is used to advance from one subpage to
the next.

‘devname’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the device name keyword of the
     required output device.  If ‘devname’ is NULL or if the first
     character of the string is a “?”, the normal (prompted) start up is
     used.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of subpages to divide output page in the x direction.

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of subpages to divide output page in the y direction.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plstart(devname, nx, ny)’

   • Perl/PDL: ‘plstart(nx, ny, devname)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.149 plstransform: Set a global coordinate transform function
===============================================================

     plstransform ( coordinate_transform , coordinate_transform_data );

   This function can be used to define a coordinate transformation which
affects all elements drawn within the current plot window.  The
‘‘coordinate_transform’’ callback function is similar to that provided
for the ‘plmap’ (*note plmap; Plot continental outline or shapefile data
in world coordinates::) and ‘plmeridians’ (*note plmeridians; Plot
latitude and longitude lines::) functions.  The
‘‘coordinate_transform_data’’ parameter may be used to pass extra data
to ‘‘coordinate_transform’’.

‘coordinate_transform’ (‘‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::)’, input)
     A callback function that defines the transformation from the input
     (x, y) world coordinates to new PLplot world coordinates.  If
     ‘coordinate_transform’ is not supplied (e.g., is set to NULL in the
     C case), then no transform is applied.

‘coordinate_transform_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Optional extra data for ‘ ‘coordinate_transform’ ’.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plstransform(coordinate_transform,
     coordinate_transform_data)’

   This function is used in examples 19 and 22.


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18.150 plstring: Plot a glyph at the specified points
=====================================================

     plstring ( n , x , y , string );

   Plot a glyph at the specified points.  (Supersedes ‘plpoin’ (*note
plpoin; Plot a glyph at the specified points::) and ‘plsym’ (*note
plsym; Plot a glyph at the specified points::) because many[!]  more
glyphs are accessible with ‘plstring’ (*note plstring; Plot a glyph at
the specified points::).)  The glyph is specified with a PLplot user
string.  Note that the user string is not actually limited to one glyph
so it is possible (but not normally useful) to plot more than one glyph
at the specified points with this function.  As with ‘plmtex’ (*note
plmtex; Write text relative to viewport boundaries::) and ‘plptex’
(*note plptex; Write text inside the viewport::), the user string can
contain FCI escapes to determine the font, UTF-8 code to determine the
glyph or else PLplot escapes for Hershey or unicode text to determine
the glyph.

‘n’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of points in the ‘‘x’’ and ‘‘y’’ vectors.

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates of the points.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates of the points.

‘string’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A UTF-8 character string containing the glyph(s) to be plotted at
     each of the ‘‘n’’ points.

   Redacted form: ‘plstring(x, y, string)’

   This function is used in examples 4, 21 and 26.


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18.151 plstring3: Plot a glyph at the specified 3D points
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     plstring3 ( n , x , y , z , string );

   Plot a glyph at the specified 3D points.  (Supersedes ‘plpoin3’
(*note plpoin3; Plot a glyph at the specified 3D points::) because
many[!]  more glyphs are accessible with ‘plstring3’ (*note plstring3;
Plot a glyph at the specified 3D points::).)  Set up the call to this
function similar to what is done for ‘plline3’ (*note plline3; Draw a
line in 3 space::).  The glyph is specified with a PLplot user string.
Note that the user string is not actually limited to one glyph so it is
possible (but not normally useful) to plot more than one glyph at the
specified points with this function.  As with ‘plmtex’ (*note plmtex;
Write text relative to viewport boundaries::) and ‘plptex’ (*note
plptex; Write text inside the viewport::), the user string can contain
FCI escapes to determine the font, UTF-8 code to determine the glyph or
else PLplot escapes for Hershey or unicode text to determine the glyph.

‘n’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of points in the ‘‘x’’, ‘‘y’’, and ‘‘z’’ vectors.

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates of the points.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates of the points.

‘z’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the z coordinates of the points.

‘string’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A UTF-8 character string containing the glyph(s) to be plotted at
     each of the ‘‘n’’ points.  points.

   Redacted form: ‘plstring3(x, y, z, string)’

   This function is used in example 18.


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18.152 plstripa: Add a point to a strip chart
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     plstripa ( id , pen , x , y );

   Add a point to a given pen of a given strip chart.  There is no need
for all pens to have the same number of points or to be equally sampled
in the x coordinate.  Allocates memory and rescales as necessary.

‘id’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Identification number of the strip chart (set up in ‘plstripc’
     (*note plstripc; Create a 4-pen strip chart::)).

‘pen’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Pen number (ranges from 0 to 3).

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     X coordinate of point to plot.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Y coordinate of point to plot.

   Redacted form: ‘plstripa(id, pen, x, y)’

   This function is used in example 17.


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18.153 plstripc: Create a 4-pen strip chart
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     plstripc ( id , xspec , yspec , xmin , xmax , xjump , ymin , ymax ,
     xlpos , ylpos , y_ascl , acc , colbox , collab , colline , styline
     , legline[] , labx , laby , labtop );

   Create a 4-pen strip chart, to be used afterwards by ‘plstripa’
(*note plstripa; Add a point to a strip chart::)

‘id’ (‘‘PLINT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLINT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Returned value of the identification number of the strip chart to
     use on ‘plstripa’ (*note plstripa; Add a point to a strip chart::)
     and ‘plstripd’ (*note plstripd; Deletes and releases memory used by
     a strip chart::).

‘xspec’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the x-axis specification as in
     ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box with axes; etc::).

‘yspec’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string containing the y-axis specification as in
     ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box with axes; etc::).

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Initial coordinates of plot box; they will change as data are
     added.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Initial coordinates of plot box; they will change as data are
     added.

‘xjump’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     When x attains ‘ ‘xmax’ ’, the length of the plot is multiplied by
     the factor ‘ (1 + ‘xjump’) ’.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Initial coordinates of plot box; they will change as data are
     added.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Initial coordinates of plot box; they will change as data are
     added.

‘xlpos’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     X legend box position (range from 0 to 1).

‘ylpos’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Y legend box position (range from 0 to 1).

‘y_ascl’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     Autoscale y between x jumps if ‘ ‘y_ascl’ ’ is true, otherwise not.

‘acc’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     Accumulate strip plot if ‘ ‘acc’ ’ is true, otherwise slide
     display.

‘colbox’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Plot box color index (cmap0).

‘collab’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Legend color index (cmap0).

‘colline’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the cmap0 color indices for the 4 pens.

‘styline’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the line style indices for the 4 pens.

‘legline’ (‘‘PLCHAR_MATRIX’ (*note PLCHAR_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A vector of UTF-8 character strings containing legends for the 4
     pens.

‘labx’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A UTF-8 character string containing the label for the x axis.

‘laby’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A UTF-8 character string containing the label for the y axis.

‘labtop’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A UTF-8 character string containing the plot title.

   Redacted form:

   • General: ‘plstripc(id, xspec, yspec, xmin, xmax, xjump, ymin, ymax,
     xlpos, ylpos, y_ascl, acc, colbox, collab, colline, styline,
     legline, labx, laby, labz)’

   • Perl/PDL: ‘plstripc(xmin, xmax, xjump, ymin, ymax, xlpos, ylpos,
     y_ascl, acc, colbox, collab, colline, styline, id, xspec, ypsec,
     legline, labx, laby, labtop)’

   This function is used in example 17.


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18.154 plstripd: Deletes and releases memory used by a strip chart
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     plstripd ( id );

   Deletes and releases memory used by a strip chart.

‘id’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Identification number of strip chart to delete.

   Redacted form: ‘plstripd(id)’

   This function is used in example 17.


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18.155 plstyl: Set line style
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     plstyl ( nms , mark , space );

   This sets up the line style for all lines subsequently drawn.  A line
consists of segments in which the pen is alternately down and up.  The
lengths of these segments are passed in the vectors ‘‘mark’’ and
‘‘space’’ respectively.  The number of mark-space pairs is specified by
‘‘nms’’.  In order to return the line style to the default continuous
line, ‘plstyl’ (*note plstyl; Set line style::) should be called with
‘‘nms’ =0 ’.(see also ‘pllsty’ (*note pllsty; Select line style::))

‘nms’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     The number of ‘ ‘mark’ ’ and ‘ ‘space’ ’ elements in a line.  Thus
     a simple broken line can be obtained by setting ‘ ‘nms’=1 ’.  A
     continuous line is specified by setting ‘ ‘nms’=0 ’.

‘mark’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the lengths of the segments during which the
     pen is down, measured in micrometers.

‘space’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the lengths of the segments during which the
     pen is up, measured in micrometers.

   Redacted form: ‘plstyl(mark, space)’

   This function is used in examples 1, 9, and 14.


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18.156 plsurf3d: Plot shaded 3-d surface plot
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     plsurf3d ( x , y , z , nx , ny , opt , clevel , nlevel );

   Plots a three-dimensional shaded surface plot within the environment
set up by ‘plw3d’ (*note plw3d; Configure the transformations required
for projecting a 3D surface on a 2D window::).  The surface is defined
by the two-dimensional matrix ‘‘z’[‘nx’][‘ny’]’, the point ‘‘z’[i][j]’
being the value of the function at ‘(‘x’[i],‘y’[j])’.  Note that the
points in vectors ‘‘x’’ and ‘‘y’’ do not need to be equally spaced, but
must be stored in ascending order.  For further details see *note
Three-dimensional Plots::.

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘z’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix containing function values to plot.  Should have
     dimensions of ‘nx’ by ‘ny’.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘‘x’’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘‘y’’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘opt’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Determines the way in which the surface is represented.  To specify
     more than one option just add the options, e.g.  FACETED +
     SURF_CONT

        • ‘ ‘opt’=FACETED ’: Network of lines is drawn connecting points
          at which function is defined.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=BASE_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the base XY
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=SURF_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the surface
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=DRAW_SIDES ’: draws a curtain between the base XY
          plane and the borders of the plotted function.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=MAG_COLOR ’: the surface is colored according to the
          value of Z; if ‘MAG_COLOR’ is not used, then the surface is
          colored according to the intensity of the reflected light in
          the surface from a light source whose position is set using
          ‘pllightsource’ (*note pllightsource; Sets the 3D position of
          the light source::).

‘clevel’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the contour levels.

‘nlevel’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of elements in the ‘clevel’ vector.

   Redacted form: ‘plsurf3d(x, y, z, opt, clevel)’

   This function is not used in any examples.


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18.157 plsurf3dl: Plot shaded 3-d surface plot for z[x][y] with y index limits
==============================================================================

     plsurf3dl ( x , y , z , nx , ny , opt , clevel , nlevel , indexxmin
     , indexxmax , indexymin , indexymax );

   This variant of ‘plsurf3d’ (*note plsurf3d; Plot shaded 3-d surface
plot::) (see that function’s documentation for more details) should be
suitable for the case where the area of the ‘‘x’’, ‘‘y’’ coordinate grid
where ‘‘z’’ is defined can be non-rectangular.  The limits of that grid
are provided by the parameters ‘‘indexxmin’’, ‘‘indexxmax’’,
‘‘indexymin’’, and ‘‘indexymax’’.

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘z’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix containing function values to plot.  Should have
     dimensions of ‘nx’ by ‘ny’.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘‘x’’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘‘y’’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘opt’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Determines the way in which the surface is represented.  To specify
     more than one option just add the options, e.g.  FACETED +
     SURF_CONT

        • ‘ ‘opt’=FACETED ’: Network of lines is drawn connecting points
          at which function is defined.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=BASE_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the base XY
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=SURF_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the surface
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=DRAW_SIDES ’: draws a curtain between the base XY
          plane and the borders of the plotted function.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=MAG_COLOR ’: the surface is colored according to the
          value of Z; if ‘MAG_COLOR’ is not used, then the surface is
          colored according to the intensity of the reflected light in
          the surface from a light source whose position is set using
          ‘pllightsource’ (*note pllightsource; Sets the 3D position of
          the light source::).

‘clevel’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the contour levels.

‘nlevel’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of elements in the ‘clevel’ vector.

‘indexxmin’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     The index value (which must be ≥ 0) that corresponds to the first ‘
     ‘x’ ’ index where ‘ ‘z’ ’ is defined.

‘indexxmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     The index value (which must be ≤ ‘ ‘nx’ ’) which corresponds (by
     convention) to one more than the last ‘ ‘x’ ’ index value where ‘
     ‘z’ ’ is defined.

‘indexymin’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the ‘‘y’’ index values which all must be ≥ 0.
     These values are the first ‘‘y’’ index where ‘‘z’’ is defined for a
     particular ‘‘x’’ index in the range from ‘‘indexxmin’’ to
     ‘‘indexxmax - 1’’.  The dimension of ‘‘indexymin’’ is
     ‘‘indexxmax’’.

‘indexymax’ (‘‘PLINT_VECTOR’ (*note PLINT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the ‘‘y’’ index values which all must be ≤
     ‘‘ny’’.  These values correspond (by convention) to one more than
     the last ‘‘y’’ index where ‘‘z’’ is defined for a particular ‘‘x’’
     index in the range from ‘‘indexxmin’’ to ‘‘indexxmax - 1’’.  The
     dimension of ‘‘indexymax’’ is ‘‘indexxmax’’.

   Redacted form: ‘ plsurf3dl(x, y, z, opt, clevel, indexxmin,
indexymin, indexymax) ’

   This function is used in example 8.


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18.158 plsvect: Set arrow style for vector plots
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     plsvect ( arrowx , arrowy , npts , fill );

   Set the style for the arrow used by ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector
plot::) to plot vectors.

‘arrowx, arrowy’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A pair of vectors containing the x and y points which make up the
     arrow.  The arrow is plotted by joining these points to form a
     polygon.  The scaling assumes that the x and y points in the arrow
     lie in the range ‘-0.5 <= x,y <= 0.5’.  If both ‘‘arrowx’’ and
     ‘‘arrowy’’ are NULL then the arrow style will be reset to its
     default.

‘npts’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of points in the vectors ‘ ‘arrowx’ ’ and ‘ ‘arrowy’ ’.

‘fill’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     If ‘ ‘fill’ ’ is true then the arrow is closed, if ‘ ‘fill’ ’ is
     false then the arrow is open.

   Redacted form: ‘plsvect(arrowx, arrowy, fill)’

   This function is used in example 22.


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18.159 plsvpa: Specify viewport in absolute coordinates
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     plsvpa ( xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax );

   Alternate routine to ‘plvpor’ (*note plvpor; Specify viewport using
normalized subpage coordinates::) for setting up the viewport.  This
routine should be used only if the viewport is required to have a
definite size in millimeters.  The routine ‘plgspa’ (*note plgspa; Get
current subpage parameters::) is useful for finding out the size of the
current subpage.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The distance of the left-hand edge of the viewport from the
     left-hand edge of the subpage in millimeters.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The distance of the right-hand edge of the viewport from the
     left-hand edge of the subpage in millimeters.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The distance of the bottom edge of the viewport from the bottom
     edge of the subpage in millimeters.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The distance of the top edge of the viewport from the bottom edge
     of the subpage in millimeters.

   Redacted form: ‘plsvpa(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)’

   This function is used in example 10.


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18.160 plsxax: Set x axis parameters
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     plsxax ( digmax , digits );

   Sets values of the ‘ ‘digmax’ ’ and ‘ ‘digits’ ’ flags for the x
axis.  See *note Annotating the Viewport:: for more information.

‘digmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Variable to set the maximum number of digits for the x axis.  If
     nonzero, the printed label will be switched to a floating-point
     representation when the number of digits exceeds ‘ ‘digmax’ ’.

‘digits’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Field digits value.  Currently, changing its value here has no
     effect since it is set only by ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box
     with axes; etc::) or ‘ plbox3’ (*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes;
     etc; in 3-d::).  However, the user may obtain its value after a
     call to either of these functions by calling ‘plgxax’ (*note
     plgxax; Get x axis parameters::).

   Redacted form: ‘plsxax(digmax, digits)’

   This function is used in example 31.


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18.161 plsyax: Set y axis parameters
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     plsyax ( digmax , digits );

   Identical to ‘plsxax’ (*note plsxax; Set x axis parameters::), except
that arguments are flags for y axis.  See the description of ‘plsxax’
(*note plsxax; Set x axis parameters::) for more detail.

‘digmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Variable to set the maximum number of digits for the y axis.  If
     nonzero, the printed label will be switched to a floating-point
     representation when the number of digits exceeds ‘ ‘digmax’ ’.

‘digits’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Field digits value.  Currently, changing its value here has no
     effect since it is set only by ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box
     with axes; etc::) or ‘ plbox3’ (*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes;
     etc; in 3-d::).  However, the user may obtain its value after a
     call to either of these functions by calling ‘plgyax’ (*note
     plgyax; Get y axis parameters::).

   Redacted form: ‘plsyax(digmax, digits)’

   This function is used in examples 1, 14, and 31.


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18.162 plsym: Plot a glyph at the specified points
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     plsym ( n , x , y , code );

   Plot a glyph at the specified points.  (This function is largely
superseded by ‘plstring’ (*note plstring; Plot a glyph at the specified
points::) which gives access to many[!]  more glyphs.)

‘n’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of points in the ‘‘x’’ and ‘‘y’’ vectors.

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates of the points.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates of the points.

‘code’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Hershey symbol code corresponding to a glyph to be plotted at each
     of the ‘ ‘n’ ’ points.

   Redacted form: ‘plsym(x, y, code)’

   This function is used in example 7.


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18.163 plszax: Set z axis parameters
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     plszax ( digmax , digits );

   Identical to ‘plsxax’ (*note plsxax; Set x axis parameters::), except
that arguments are flags for z axis.  See the description of ‘plsxax’
(*note plsxax; Set x axis parameters::) for more detail.

‘digmax’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Variable to set the maximum number of digits for the z axis.  If
     nonzero, the printed label will be switched to a floating-point
     representation when the number of digits exceeds ‘ ‘digmax’ ’.

‘digits’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Field digits value.  Currently, changing its value here has no
     effect since it is set only by ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box
     with axes; etc::) or ‘ plbox3’ (*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes;
     etc; in 3-d::).  However, the user may obtain its value after a
     call to either of these functions by calling ‘plgzax’ (*note
     plgzax; Get z axis parameters::).

   Redacted form: ‘plszax(digmax, digits)’

   This function is used in example 31.


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18.164 pltext: Switch to text screen
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     pltext ();

   Sets an interactive device to text mode, used in conjunction with
‘plgra’ (*note plgra; Switch to graphics screen::) to allow graphics and
text to be interspersed.  On a device which supports separate text and
graphics windows, this command causes control to be switched to the text
window.  This can be useful for printing diagnostic messages or getting
user input, which would otherwise interfere with the plots.  The program
_must_ switch back to the graphics window before issuing plot commands,
as the text (or console) device will probably become quite confused
otherwise.  If already in text mode, this command is ignored.  It is
also ignored on devices which only support a single window or use a
different method for shifting focus (see also ‘plgra’ (*note plgra;
Switch to graphics screen::)).

   Redacted form: ‘pltext()’

   This function is used in example 1.


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18.165 pltimefmt: Set format for date / time labels
===================================================

     pltimefmt ( fmt );

   Sets the format for date / time labels.  To enable date / time format
labels see the options to ‘plbox’ (*note plbox; Draw a box with axes;
etc::), ‘ plbox3’ (*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes; etc; in 3-d::),
and ‘plenv’ (*note plenv; Set up standard window and draw box::).

‘fmt’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string which is interpreted similarly to the
     format specifier of typical system strftime routines except that
     PLplot ignores locale and also supplies some useful extensions in
     the context of plotting.  All text in the string is printed as-is
     other than conversion specifications which take the form of a ’%’
     character followed by further conversion specification character.
     The conversion specifications which are similar to those provided
     by system strftime routines are the following:

        • ‘%a’: The abbreviated (English) weekday name.

        • ‘%A’: The full (English) weekday name.

        • ‘%b’: The abbreviated (English) month name.

        • ‘%B’: The full (English) month name.

        • ‘%c’: Equivalent to %a %b %d %T %Y (non-ISO).

        • ‘%C’: The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer.

        • ‘%d’: The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to
          31).

        • ‘%D’: Equivalent to %m/%d/%y (non-ISO).

        • ‘%e’: Like %d, but a leading zero is replaced by a space.

        • ‘%F’: Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format).

        • ‘%h’: Equivalent to %b.

        • ‘%H’: The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock
          (range 00 to 23).

        • ‘%I’: The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock
          (range 01 to 12).

        • ‘%j’: The day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to
          366).

        • ‘%k’: The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to
          23); single digits are preceded by a blank.  (See also %H.)

        • ‘%l’: The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to
          12); single digits are preceded by a blank.  (See also %I.)

        • ‘%m’: The month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).

        • ‘%M’: The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).

        • ‘%n’: A newline character.

        • ‘%p’: Either "AM" or "PM" according to the given time value.
          Noon is treated as "PM" and midnight as "AM".

        • ‘%r’: Equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p.

        • ‘%R’: The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). For a version
          including the seconds, see %T below.

        • ‘%s’: The number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01
          00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).

        • ‘%S’: The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60).  (The
          range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)

        • ‘%t’: A tab character.

        • ‘%T’: The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S).

        • ‘%u’: The day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday
          being 1.  See also %w.

        • ‘%U’: The week number of the current year as a decimal number,
          range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first
          day of week 01.  See also %V and %W.

        • ‘%v’: Equivalent to %e-%b-%Y.

        • ‘%V’: The ISO 8601 week number of the current year as a
          decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week
          that has at least 4 days in the new year.  See also %U and %W.

        • ‘%w’: The day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday
          being 0.  See also %u.

        • ‘%W’: The week number of the current year as a decimal number,
          range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first
          day of week 01.

        • ‘%x’: Equivalent to %a %b %d %Y.

        • ‘%X’: Equivalent to %T.

        • ‘%y’: The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00
          to 99).

        • ‘%Y’: The year as a decimal number including a century.

        • ‘%z’: The UTC time-zone string = "+0000".

        • ‘%Z’: The UTC time-zone abbreviation = "UTC".

        • ‘%+’: The UTC date and time in default format of the Unix date
          command which is equivalent to %a %b %d %T %Z %Y.

        • ‘%%’: A literal "%" character.

     The conversion specifications which are extensions to those
     normally provided by system strftime routines are the following:

        • ‘%(0-9)’: The fractional part of the seconds field (including
          leading decimal point) to the specified accuracy.  Thus %S%3
          would give seconds to millisecond accuracy (00.000).

        • ‘%.’: The fractional part of the seconds field (including
          leading decimal point) to the maximum available accuracy.
          Thus %S%.  would give seconds with fractional part up to 9
          decimal places if available.

   Redacted form: ‘pltimefmt(fmt)’

   This function is used in example 29.


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18.166 plvasp: Specify viewport using aspect ratio only
=======================================================

     plvasp ( aspect );

   Selects the largest viewport with the given aspect ratio within the
subpage that leaves a standard margin (left-hand margin of eight
character heights, and a margin around the other three sides of five
character heights).

‘aspect’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Ratio of length of y axis to length of x axis of resulting
     viewport.

   Redacted form: ‘plvasp(aspect)’

   This function is used in example 13.


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18.167 plvect: Vector plot
==========================

     plvect ( u , v , nx , ny , scale , pltr , pltr_data );

   Draws a plot of vector data contained in the matrices ‘
(‘u’[‘nx’][‘ny’],‘v’[‘nx’][‘ny’]) ’.  The scaling factor for the vectors
is given by ‘‘scale’’.  A transformation routine pointed to by ‘‘pltr’’
with a pointer ‘‘pltr_data’’ for additional data required by the
transformation routine to map indices within the matrices to the world
coordinates.  The style of the vector arrow may be set using ‘plsvect’
(*note plsvect; Set arrow style for vector plots::).

‘u, v’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A pair of matrices containing the x and y components of the vector
     data to be plotted.

‘nx, ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Dimensions of the matrices ‘‘u’’ and ‘‘v’’.

‘scale’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Parameter to control the scaling factor of the vectors for
     plotting.  If ‘‘scale’ = 0 ’ then the scaling factor is
     automatically calculated for the data.  If ‘‘scale’ < 0’ then the
     scaling factor is automatically calculated for the data and then
     multiplied by ‘-‘scale’ ’.  If ‘‘scale’ > 0’ then the scaling
     factor is set to ‘‘scale’’.

‘pltr’ (‘‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::)’, input)
     A callback function that defines the transformation between the
     zero-based indices of the matrices ‘‘u’’ and ‘‘v’’ and world
     coordinates.

     For the C case, transformation functions are provided in the PLplot
     library: ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping::) for the identity mapping, and
     ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to
     world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays::) and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid
     to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays
     [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::) for arbitrary
     mappings respectively defined by vectors and matrices.  In
     addition, C callback routines for the transformation can be
     supplied by the user such as the ‘mypltr’ function in
     ‘examples/c/x09c.c’ which provides a general linear transformation
     between index coordinates and world coordinates.

     For languages other than C you should consult *note Supported
     computer languages: Supported computer languages. for the details
     concerning how ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
     PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) arguments are interfaced.  However, in
     general, a particular pattern of callback-associated arguments such
     as a ‘tr’ vector with 6 elements; ‘xg’ and ‘yg’ vectors; or ‘xg’
     and ‘yg’ matrices are respectively interfaced to a
     linear-transformation routine similar to the above ‘mypltr’
     function; ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::); and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear
     interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::).
     Furthermore, some of our more sophisticated bindings (see, e.g.,
     *note Fortran Language::) support native language callbacks for
     handling index to world-coordinate transformations.  Examples of
     these various approaches are given in ‘examples/<language>x09*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x16*’, ‘examples/<language>x20*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x21*’, and ‘examples/<language>x22*’, for all
     our supported languages.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Extra parameter to help pass information to ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0;
     Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping::), ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::), ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation
     for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::), or whatever
     callback routine that is externally supplied.

   Redacted form: ‘plvect(u, v, scale, pltr, pltr_data)’ where (see
above discussion) the ‘pltr, pltr_data’ callback arguments are sometimes
replaced by a ‘tr’ vector with 6 elements, or ‘xg’ and ‘yg’ array
arguments with either one or two dimensions.

   This function is used in example 22.


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18.168 plvpas: Specify viewport using coordinates and aspect ratio
==================================================================

     plvpas ( xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax , aspect );

   Device-independent routine for setting up the viewport.  The viewport
is chosen to be the largest with the given aspect ratio that fits within
the specified region (in terms of normalized subpage coordinates).  This
routine is functionally equivalent to ‘plvpor’ (*note plvpor; Specify
viewport using normalized subpage coordinates::) when a “natural” aspect
ratio (0.0) is chosen.  Unlike ‘plvasp’ (*note plvasp; Specify viewport
using aspect ratio only::), this routine reserves no extra space at the
edges for labels.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the left-hand edge of the
     viewport.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the right-hand edge of the
     viewport.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the bottom edge of the
     viewport.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the top edge of the viewport.

‘aspect’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Ratio of length of y axis to length of x axis.

   Redacted form: ‘plvpas(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, aspect)’

   This function is used in example 9.


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18.169 plvpor: Specify viewport using normalized subpage coordinates
====================================================================

     plvpor ( xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax );

   Device-independent routine for setting up the viewport.  This defines
the viewport in terms of normalized subpage coordinates which run from
0.0 to 1.0 (left to right and bottom to top) along each edge of the
current subpage.  Use the alternate routine ‘plsvpa’ (*note plsvpa;
Specify viewport in absolute coordinates::) in order to create a
viewport of a definite size.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the left-hand edge of the
     viewport.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the right-hand edge of the
     viewport.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the bottom edge of the
     viewport.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized subpage coordinate of the top edge of the viewport.

   Redacted form: ‘plvpor(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)’

   This function is used in examples 2, 6-8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 21, 23,
24, 26, 27, and 31.


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18.170 plvsta: Select standard viewport
=======================================

     plvsta ();

   Selects the largest viewport within the subpage that leaves a
standard margin (left-hand margin of eight character heights, and a
margin around the other three sides of five character heights).

   Redacted form: ‘plvsta()’

   This function is used in examples 1, 12, 14, 17, 25, and 29.


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18.171 plw3d: Configure the transformations required for projecting a 3D surface on a 2D window
===============================================================================================

     plw3d ( basex , basey , height , xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax , zmin ,
     zmax , alt , az );

   Configure the transformations required for projecting a 3D surface on
an existing 2D window.  Those transformations (see *note Surface
Plots::) are done to a rectangular cuboid enclosing the 3D surface which
has its limits expressed in 3D world coordinates and also normalized 3D
coordinates (used for interpreting the altitude and azimuth of the
viewing angle).  The transformations consist of the linear transform
from 3D world coordinates to normalized 3D coordinates, and the 3D
rotation of normalized coordinates required to align the pole of the new
3D coordinate system with the viewing direction specified by altitude
and azimuth so that x and y of the surface elements in that transformed
coordinate system are the projection of the 3D surface with given
viewing direction on the 2D window.

   The enclosing rectangular cuboid for the surface plot is defined by
‘‘xmin’’, ‘‘xmax’’, ‘‘ymin’’, ‘‘ymax’’, ‘‘zmin’’ and ‘‘zmax’’ in 3D
world coordinates.  It is mapped into the same rectangular cuboid with
normalized 3D coordinate sizes of ‘‘basex’’ by ‘‘basey’’ by ‘‘height’’
so that ‘‘xmin’’ maps to ‘-‘basex’/2’, ‘‘xmax’’ maps to ‘‘basex’/2’,
‘‘ymin’’ maps to ‘-‘basey’/2’, ‘‘ymax’’ maps to ‘‘basey’/2’, ‘‘zmin’’
maps to ‘0’ and ‘‘zmax’’ maps to ‘‘height’’.  The resulting rectangular
cuboid in normalized coordinates is then viewed by an observer at
altitude ‘‘alt’’ and azimuth ‘‘az’’.  This routine must be called before
‘ plbox3’ (*note plbox3; Draw a box with axes; etc; in 3-d::) or any of
the 3D surface plotting routines; ‘plmesh’ (*note plmesh; Plot surface
mesh::), ‘plmeshc’ (*note plmeshc; Magnitude colored plot surface mesh
with contour::), ‘plot3d’ (*note plot3d; Plot 3-d surface plot::),
‘plot3dc’ (*note plot3dc; Magnitude colored plot surface with
contour::), ‘plot3dcl’ (*note plot3dcl; Magnitude colored plot surface
with contour for z[x][y] with y index limits::), ‘plsurf3d’ (*note
plsurf3d; Plot shaded 3-d surface plot::), ‘plsurf3dl’ (*note plsurf3dl;
Plot shaded 3-d surface plot for z[x][y] with y index limits::) or
‘plfill3’ (*note plfill3; Draw filled polygon in 3D::).

‘basex’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized x coordinate size of the rectangular cuboid.

‘basey’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized y coordinate size of the rectangular cuboid.

‘height’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The normalized z coordinate size of the rectangular cuboid.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The minimum x world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The maximum x world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The minimum y world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The maximum y world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘zmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The minimum z world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘zmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The maximum z world coordinate of the rectangular cuboid.

‘alt’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The viewing altitude in degrees above the xy plane of the
     rectangular cuboid in normalized coordinates.

‘az’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The viewing azimuth in degrees of the rectangular cuboid in
     normalized coordinates.  When ‘‘az’=0’, the observer is looking
     face onto the zx plane of the rectangular cuboid in normalized
     coordinates, and as ‘‘az’’ is increased, the observer moves
     clockwise around that cuboid when viewed from above the xy plane.

   Redacted form: ‘plw3d(basex, basey, height, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax,
zmin, zmax, alt, az)’

   This function is examples 8, 11, 18, and 21.


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18.172 plwidth: Set pen width
=============================

     plwidth ( width );

   Sets the pen width.

‘width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The desired pen width.  If ‘ ‘width’ ’ is negative or the same as
     the previous value no action is taken.  ‘ ‘width’ = 0. ’ should be
     interpreted as as the minimum valid pen width for the device.  The
     interpretation of positive ‘ ‘width’ ’ values is also device
     dependent.

   Redacted form: ‘plwidth(width)’

   This function is used in examples 1 and 2.


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18.173 plwind: Specify window
=============================

     plwind ( xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax );

   Specify the window, i.e., the world coordinates of the edges of the
viewport.

‘xmin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The world x coordinate of the left-hand edge of the viewport.

‘xmax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The world x coordinate of the right-hand edge of the viewport.

‘ymin’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The world y coordinate of the bottom edge of the viewport.

‘ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     The world y coordinate of the top edge of the viewport.

   Redacted form: ‘plwind(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)’

   This function is used in examples 1, 2, 4, 6-12, 14-16, 18, 21,
23-27, 29, and 31.


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18.174 plxormod: Enter or leave xor mode
========================================

     plxormod ( mode , status );

   Enter (when ‘ ‘mode’ ’ is true) or leave (when ‘ ‘mode’ ’ is false)
xor mode for those drivers (e.g., the xwin driver) that support it.
Enables erasing plots by drawing twice the same line, symbol, etc.  If
driver is not capable of xor operation it returns a ‘ ‘status’ ’ of
false.

‘mode’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     ‘‘mode’’ is true means enter xor mode and ‘‘mode’’ is false means
     leave xor mode.

‘status’ (‘‘PLBOOL_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLBOOL_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Returned value of the status.  ‘‘mode’’status of true (false) means
     driver is capable (incapable) of xor mode.

   Redacted form: ‘plxormod(mode, status)’

   This function is used in examples 1 and 20.


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19 The Specialized C/C++ API for PLplot
***************************************

The purpose of this chapter is to document the PLplot C/C++ functions
that are currently not part of the common API, either because they are
C/C++ specific utility functions (e.g.  ‘plAlloc2dGrid’ (*note
plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of type
PLFLT_MATRIX_::), ‘plFree2dGrid’ (*note plFree2dGrid; Free the memory
associated with a PLFLT matrix allocated using plAlloc2dGrid_::)) or
because they are not yet implemented in other languages (e.g.,
‘plMergeOpts’ (*note plMergeOpts; Merge use option table into internal
info structure_::)).  Some of these functions are used in the C or C++
examples and may be helpful to other C/C++ users of PLplot.

   This chapter also documents some of the C/C++ structures defined by
PLplot and used by these functions.

* Menu:

* plabort; Error abort : plabort; Error abort.
* plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX. : plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX_.
* plClearOpts; Clear internal option table info structure. : plClearOpts; Clear internal option table info structure_.
* plexit; Error exit : plexit; Error exit.
* plFree2dGrid; Free the memory associated with a PLFLT matrix allocated using plAlloc2dGrid. : plFree2dGrid; Free the memory associated with a PLFLT matrix allocated using plAlloc2dGrid_.
* plfsurf3d; Plot shaded 3-d surface plot : plfsurf3d; Plot shaded 3-d surface plot.
* plgfile; Get output file handle : plgfile; Get output file handle.
* plMergeOpts; Merge use option table into internal info structure. : plMergeOpts; Merge use option table into internal info structure_.
* plMinMax2dGrid; Find the minimum and maximum of a PLFLT matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX allocated using plAlloc2dGrid. : plMinMax2dGrid; Find the minimum and maximum of a PLFLT matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX allocated using plAlloc2dGrid_.
* plOptUsage; Print usage and syntax message. : plOptUsage; Print usage and syntax message_.
* plResetOpts; Reset internal option table info structure. : plResetOpts; Reset internal option table info structure_.
* plsabort; Set abort handler : plsabort; Set abort handler.
* plSetUsage; Set the ascii character strings used in usage and syntax messages. : plSetUsage; Set the ascii character strings used in usage and syntax messages_.
* plsexit; Set exit handler : plsexit; Set exit handler.
* plsfile; Set output file handle : plsfile; Set output file handle.
* plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of value : plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of value.
* pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping : pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping.
* pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate arrays : pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate arrays.
* pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays (row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays) : pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays].
* plTranslateCursor; Convert device to world coordinates : plTranslateCursor; Convert device to world coordinates.
* PLGraphicsIn; PLplot Graphics Input structure::
* PLOptionTable; PLplot command line options table structure::


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19.1 plabort: Error abort
=========================

     plabort (message);

   This routine is to be used when something goes wrong that doesn’t
require calling ‘plexit’ (*note plexit; Error exit::) but for which
there is no useful recovery.  It calls the abort handler defined via
‘plsabort’ (*note plsabort; Set abort handler::), does some cleanup and
returns.  The user can supply his/her own abort handler and pass it in
via ‘plsabort’ (*note plsabort; Set abort handler::).

‘message’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     Abort message.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.2 plAlloc2dGrid: Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX.
========================================================================================

     plAlloc2dGrid (f, nx, ny);

   Allocates the memory for a matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX (organized as
an Iliffe column vector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliffe_vector) of
pointers to row vectors).  As a result the matrix can be accessed using
C/C++ syntax like ‘*f[i][j]’.  The memory associated with this matrix
must be freed by calling ‘plFree2dGrid’ (*note plFree2dGrid; Free the
memory associated with a PLFLT matrix allocated using plAlloc2dGrid_::)
once it is no longer required.

‘f’ (‘PLFLT_NC_MATRIX *’, output)
     If the allocation is a success, a pointer to a matrix (organized as
     an Iliffe column vector
     (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliffe_vector) of pointers to row
     vectors) is returned.  If the allocation is a failure, then the
     returned value of ‘f’ will be NULL.

‘nx, ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Dimensions of matrix to be allocated.

   This function is used in C examples 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 28,
30.


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19.3 plClearOpts: Clear internal option table info structure.
=============================================================

     plClearOpts ();

   Clear the internal options table info structure.  This removes any
option added with ‘plMergeOpts’ (*note plMergeOpts; Merge use option
table into internal info structure_::) as well as all default entries.

   This function returns 0 on success.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.4 plexit: Error exit
=======================

     plexit (message);

   This routine is called in case an error is encountered during
execution of a PLplot routine.  It prints the error message, tries to
release allocated resources, calls the handler provided by ‘plsexit’
(*note plsexit; Set exit handler::) and then exits.  If cleanup needs to
be done in the driver program then the user may want to supply his/her
own exit handler and pass it in via ‘plsexit’ (*note plsexit; Set exit
handler::).  This function should either call ‘plend’ (*note plend; End
plotting session::) before exiting, or simply return.

‘message’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     Error message.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.5 plFree2dGrid: Free the memory associated with a PLFLT matrix allocated using ‘plAlloc2dGrid’.
==================================================================================================

     plFree2dGrid (f, nx, ny);

   Frees a block of memory allocated using ‘plAlloc2dGrid’ (*note
plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of type
PLFLT_MATRIX_::).

‘f’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_NC_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix to be freed after allocation by ‘plAlloc2dGrid’ (*note
     plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block of memory for use as a matrix of
     type PLFLT_MATRIX_::) and all use of the matrix has been completed.

‘nx, ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Dimensions of the matrix to be freed.

   This function is used in C examples 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 28,
30.


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19.6 plfsurf3d: Plot shaded 3-d surface plot
============================================

     plfsurf3d ( x , y , zops , zp , nx , ny , opt , clevel , nlevel );

   Plots a three-dimensional shaded surface plot within the environment
set up by ‘plw3d’ (*note plw3d; Configure the transformations required
for projecting a 3D surface on a 2D window::).  The surface is defined
by the two-dimensional function data accessed via the ‘‘zp’’ generic
pointer argument.  How the data in ‘‘zp’’ is formatted is determined by
the ‘‘zops’’ pointer to a struct containing the "get" function that
reads that data.  The following functions in PLplot core will return an
appropriate function pointer: ‘plf2ops_c()’ should be used when ‘‘zp’’
is of type ‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ and ‘plf2ops_grid_c()’,
‘plf2ops_grid_row_major()’, and ‘plf2ops_grid_col_major()’ should be
used when the matrix of two-dimensional function data are organized
within a ‘PLfGrid2’ structure as respectively two-dimensional row-major
data, one-dimensional row-major data, and one-dimensional column-major
data.  The ‘‘nx’’, ‘‘ny’’ ‘‘opt’’ ‘‘clevel’’ and ‘‘nlevel’’ parameters
are used in the same way as ‘plsurf3d’ (*note plsurf3d; Plot shaded 3-d
surface plot::).

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the x coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the y coordinates at which the function is
     evaluated.

‘zops’ (‘PLF2OPS’, input)
     Pointer to a ‘plf2ops_t’ struct that contains (amongst other
     function pointers) a pointer to a "get" function that is used to
     evaluate the 2D function data required by plfsurf3d.

‘zp’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Pointer to the two-dimensional function data in the format required
     by the "get" function that is (indirectly) pointed to by ‘zops’.
     The various possibilities have been discussed above, and examples
     of such use are given in ‘examples/c/x08c.c’.

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘ ‘x’ ’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of ‘ ‘y’ ’ values at which function is evaluated.

‘opt’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Determines the way in which the surface is represented.  To specify
     more than one option just add the options, e.g.  FACETED +
     SURF_CONT

        • ‘ ‘opt’=FACETED ’: Network of lines is drawn connecting points
          at which function is defined.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=BASE_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the base XY
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=SURF_CONT ’: A contour plot is drawn at the surface
          plane using parameters ‘nlevel’ and ‘clevel’.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=DRAW_SIDES ’: draws a curtain between the base XY
          plane and the borders of the plotted function.

        • ‘ ‘opt’=MAG_COLOR ’: the surface is colored according to the
          value of Z; if ‘MAG_COLOR’ is not used, then the surface is
          colored according to the intensity of the reflected light in
          the surface from a light source whose position is set using
          ‘pllightsource’ (*note pllightsource; Sets the 3D position of
          the light source::).

‘clevel’ (‘‘PLFLT_VECTOR’ (*note PLFLT_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     A vector containing the contour levels.

‘nlevel’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Number of elements in the ‘clevel’ vector.

   This function is optionally used in C example 8.


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19.7 plgfile: Get output file handle
====================================

     plgfile (file);

   Gets the current output file handle, if applicable.

‘file’ (‘FILE **’, output)
     File pointer to current output file.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.8 plMergeOpts: Merge use option table into internal info structure.
======================================================================

     PLINT plMergeOpts (options, name, notes);

   Merges in a set of user-supplied command line options with the
internal options table.  This allows such options to be used along with
the built-in PLplot options to set device driver, output file etc.  See
‘plparseopts’ (*note plparseopts; Parse command-line arguments::) for
details of how to parse these options in a program.

‘options’ (‘PLOptionTable *’, input)
     User option table to merge.

‘name’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     Label to preface the options in the program help.

‘notes’ (‘PLCHAR_VECTOR *’, input)
     A vector of character strings which appear after the options in the
     program help.

   This function is used in C examples 1, 8, 16, 20 and 21.


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19.9 plMinMax2dGrid: Find the minimum and maximum of a PLFLT matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX allocated using ‘plAlloc2dGrid’.
=========================================================================================================================

     plMinMax2dGrid (f, nx, ny, fmax, fmin);

   Find the minimum and maximum of a PLFLT matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX
allocated using ‘plAlloc2dGrid’ (*note plAlloc2dGrid; Allocate a block
of memory for use as a matrix of type PLFLT_MATRIX_::).

‘f’ (‘‘PLFLT_MATRIX’ (*note PLFLT_MATRIX-type::)’, input)
     A matrix to find the maximum / minimum of.

‘nx, ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Dimensions of ‘f’.

‘fmax, fmin’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Returned maximum and minimum values of the matrix ‘f’.

   This function is used in C examples 8, 11, 20 and 21.


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19.10 plOptUsage: Print usage and syntax message.
=================================================

     plOptUsage ();

   Prints the usage and syntax message.  The message can also be
displayed using the -h command line option.  There is a default message
describing the default PLplot options.  The usage message is also
modified by ‘plSetUsage’ (*note plSetUsage; Set the ascii character
strings used in usage and syntax messages_::) and ‘plMergeOpts’ (*note
plMergeOpts; Merge use option table into internal info structure_::).

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.11 plResetOpts: Reset internal option table info structure.
==============================================================

     plResetOpts ();

   Resets the internal command line options table to the default built
in value.  Any user options added with ‘plMergeOpts’ (*note plMergeOpts;
Merge use option table into internal info structure_::) will be cleared.
See ‘plparseopts’ (*note plparseopts; Parse command-line arguments::)
for details of how to parse these options in a program.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.12 plsabort: Set abort handler
=================================

     plsabort (handler);

   Sets an optional user abort handler.  See ‘plabort’ (*note plabort;
Error abort::) for details.

‘handler’ (‘void (*) (PLCHAR_VECTOR)’, input)
     Error abort handler.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.13 plSetUsage: Set the ascii character strings used in usage and syntax messages.
====================================================================================

     plSetUsage (program_string, usage_string);

   Sets the program string and usage string displayed by the command
line help option (-h) and by ‘plOptUsage’ (*note plOptUsage; Print usage
and syntax message_::).

‘program_string’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string to appear as the name of program.

‘usage_string’ (‘‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’ (*note PLCHAR_VECTOR-type::)’, input)
     An ascii character string to appear as the usage text.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.14 plsexit: Set exit handler
===============================

     plsexit (handler);

   Sets an optional user exit handler.  See ‘plexit’ (*note plexit;
Error exit::) for details.

‘handler’ (‘int (*) (PLCHAR_VECTOR)’, input)
     Error exit handler.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.15 plsfile: Set output file handle
=====================================

     plsfile (file);

   Sets the current output file handle, if applicable.  If the file has
has not been previously opened and is required by the driver, the user
will be prompted for the file name.  This routine, if used, must be
called before initializing PLplot.

‘file’ (‘FILE *’, input)
     File pointer.  The type (i.e.  text or binary) doesn’t matter on
     *ix systems.  On systems where it might matter it should match the
     type of file that the output driver would produce, i.e.  text for
     the postscript driver.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.16 plshade1: Shade individual region on the basis of value
=============================================================

     plshade1 ( a , nx , ny , defined , xmin , xmax , ymin , ymax ,
     shade_min , shade_max , sh_cmap , sh_color , sh_width , min_color ,
     min_width , max_color , max_width , fill , rectangular , pltr ,
     pltr_data );

   Shade individual region on the basis of value.  Use ‘plshades’ (*note
plshades; Shade regions on the basis of value::) if you want to shade a
number of contiguous regions using continuous colors.  In particular the
edge contours are treated properly in ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade
regions on the basis of value::).  If you attempt to do contiguous
regions with ‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on the
basis of value::) (or ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region
on the basis of value::)) the contours at the edge of the shade are
partially obliterated by subsequent plots of contiguous shaded regions.
‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of
value::) differs from ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region
on the basis of value::) only by the type of the first argument.  Look
at the argument list below and ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour plot::)
for more information about the transformation from matrix index to world
coordinates.  Shading NEEDS DOCUMENTATION, but as a stopgap look at how
‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of
value::) (or ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the
basis of value::)) are used in ‘examples/c/x15c.c’

‘a’ (‘‘PLFLT_FE_POINTER’ (*note PLFLT_FE_POINTER-type::)’, input)
     Contains pointer to first element of array to be plotted.  The
     array must have been declared as PLFLT a[nx][ny].

‘nx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     First dimension of array "a".

‘ny’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Second dimension of array "a".

‘defined’ (‘‘PLDEFINED_callback’ (*note PLDEFINED_callback-type::)’, input)
     Callback function specifying the region that should be plotted in
     the shade plot.  This function accepts x and y coordinates as input
     arguments and must return 1 if the point is to be included in the
     shade plot and 0 otherwise.  If you want to plot the entire shade
     plot (the usual case), this argument should be set to NULL.

‘xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     See the discussion of ‘pltr’ below for how these arguments are used
     (only for the special case when the callback function ‘pltr’ is not
     supplied).

‘shade_min’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines the lower end of the interval to be shaded.  If shade_max ≤
     shade_min, ‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on
     the basis of value::) does nothing.

‘shade_max’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines the upper end of the interval to be shaded.  If shade_max ≤
     shade_min, ‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on
     the basis of value::) does nothing.

‘sh_cmap’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines color map.  If ‘‘sh_cmap’=0’, then ‘‘sh_color’’ is
     interpreted as a cmap0 (integer) index.  If ‘‘sh_cmap’=1’, then
     ‘‘sh_color’’ is interpreted as a cmap1 argument in range (0.0-1.0).

‘sh_color’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines color map index with integer value if cmap0 or value in
     range (0.0-1.0) if cmap1.

‘sh_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines width used by the fill pattern.

‘min_color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘min_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘max_color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘max_width’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Defines pen color, width used by the boundary of shaded region.
     The min values are used for the shade_min boundary, and the max
     values are used on the shade_max boundary.  Set color and width to
     zero for no plotted boundaries.

‘fill’ (‘‘PLFILL_callback’ (*note PLFILL_callback-type::)’, input)
     Routine used to fill the region.  Use ‘plfill’ (*note plfill; Draw
     filled polygon::).  Future version of PLplot may have other fill
     routines.

‘rectangular’ (‘‘PLBOOL’ (*note PLBOOL-type::)’, input)
     Set ‘ ‘rectangular’ ’ to true if rectangles map to rectangles after
     coordinate transformation with ‘‘pltrl’’.  Otherwise, set
     ‘‘rectangular’’ to false.  If ‘‘rectangular’’ is set to true,
     plshade1 tries to save time by filling large rectangles.  This
     optimization fails if the coordinate transformation distorts the
     shape of rectangles.  For example a plot in polar coordinates has
     to have ‘‘rectangular’’ set to false.

‘pltr’ (‘‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::)’, input)
     A callback function that defines the transformation between the
     zero-based indices of the matrix ‘‘a’’ and world coordinates.  If
     ‘pltr’ is not supplied (e.g., is set to NULL in the C case), then
     the x indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘xmin’ through
     ‘xmax’ and the y indices of ‘‘a’’ are mapped to the range ‘ymin’
     through ‘ymax’.

     For the C case, transformation functions are provided in the PLplot
     library: ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping::) for the identity mapping, and
     ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to
     world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays::) and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid
     to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays
     [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::) for arbitrary
     mappings respectively defined by vectors and matrices.  In
     addition, C callback routines for the transformation can be
     supplied by the user such as the ‘mypltr’ function in
     ‘examples/c/x09c.c’ which provides a general linear transformation
     between index coordinates and world coordinates.

     For languages other than C you should consult *note Supported
     computer languages: Supported computer languages. for the details
     concerning how ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
     PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) arguments are interfaced.  However, in
     general, a particular pattern of callback-associated arguments such
     as a ‘tr’ vector with 6 elements; ‘xg’ and ‘yg’ vectors; or ‘xg’
     and ‘yg’ matrices are respectively interfaced to a
     linear-transformation routine similar to the above ‘mypltr’
     function; ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::); and ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear
     interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::).
     Furthermore, some of our more sophisticated bindings (see, e.g.,
     *note Fortran Language::) support native language callbacks for
     handling index to world-coordinate transformations.  Examples of
     these various approaches are given in ‘examples/<language>x09*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x16*’, ‘examples/<language>x20*’,
     ‘examples/<language>x21*’, and ‘examples/<language>x22*’, for all
     our supported languages.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     Extra parameter to help pass information to ‘pltr0’ (*note pltr0;
     Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping::), ‘pltr1’ (*note pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix
     index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned
     coordinate arrays::), ‘pltr2’ (*note pltr2; Linear interpolation
     for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate
     arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays]::), or whatever
     routine that is externally supplied.

   ‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of
value::) is currently used in C example 15, but for the rest of our
supported languages and also eventually C (once our plan to deprecate
‘plshade1’ (*note plshade1; Shade individual region on the basis of
value::) comes into effect), ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual
region on the basis of value::) should be used instead for this example.


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19.17 pltr0: Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping
=================================================================================

     pltr0 (x, y, tx, ty, pltr_data);

   Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping.
This routine can be used for the ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) argument of ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour
plot::), ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the basis
of value::), ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade regions on the basis of
value::), ‘plimagefr’ (*note plimagefr; Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::),
or ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector plot::).

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     X index of matrix.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Y index of matrix.

‘tx’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed x value in world coordinates corresponding to x index
     of matrix.

‘ty’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed y value in world coordinates corresponding to y index
     of matrix.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     A pointer to additional data that is passed as an argument to
     PLplot routines that potentially could use the ‘pltr0’ (*note
     pltr0; Identity transformation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping::) callback (i.e., ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour plot::),
     ‘plimagefr’ (*note plimagefr; Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::),
     ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the basis of
     value::), ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade regions on the basis of
     value::), and ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector plot::)); which then
     internally pass that argument on to this callback.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.18 pltr1: Linear interpolation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate arrays
=========================================================================================================================

     pltr1 (x, y, tx, ty, pltr_data);

   Linear interpolation for matrix index to world coordinate mapping
using one-dimensional ‘x’ and ‘y’ coordinate arrays.  This routine can
be used for the ‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note
PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) argument of ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour
plot::), ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the basis
of value::), ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade regions on the basis of
value::), ‘plimagefr’ (*note plimagefr; Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::),
or ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector plot::).

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     X index of matrix.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Y index of matrix.

‘tx’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed x value in world coordinates corresponding to x index
     of matrix.

‘ty’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed y value in world coordinates corresponding to y index
     of matrix.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     A pointer to additional data that is passed as an argument to
     PLplot routines that potentially could use the ‘pltr1’ (*note
     pltr1; Linear interpolation for matrix index to world coordinate
     mapping using singly dimensioned coordinate arrays::) callback
     (i.e., ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour plot::), ‘plimagefr’ (*note
     plimagefr; Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::), ‘plshade’ (*note
     plshade; Shade individual region on the basis of value::),
     ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade regions on the basis of value::),
     and ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector plot::)); which then internally
     pass that argument on to this callback.

   This function is used in C examples 9 and 16.


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19.19 pltr2: Linear interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly dimensioned coordinate arrays (row-major order as per normal C 2d arrays)
==================================================================================================================================================

     pltr2 (x, y, tx, ty, pltr_data);

   Linear interpolation for grid to world mapping using two-dimensional
‘x’ and ‘y’ coordinate arrays.  This routine can be used for the
‘PLTRANSFORM_callback’ (*note PLTRANSFORM_callback-type::) argument of
‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour plot::), ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade
individual region on the basis of value::), ‘plshades’ (*note plshades;
Shade regions on the basis of value::), ‘plimagefr’ (*note plimagefr;
Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::), or ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector
plot::).

‘x’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     X index of matrix.

‘y’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Y index of matrix.

‘tx’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed x value in world coordinates corresponding to x index
     of matrix.

‘ty’ (‘‘PLFLT_NC_SCALAR’ (*note PLFLT_NC_SCALAR-type::)’, output)
     Transformed y value in world coordinates corresponding to y index
     of matrix.

‘pltr_data’ (‘‘PLPointer’ (*note PLPointer-type::)’, input)
     A pointer to additional data that is passed as an argument to
     PLplot routines that potentially could use the ‘pltr2’ (*note
     pltr2; Linear interpolation for grid to world mapping using doubly
     dimensioned coordinate arrays [row-major order as per normal C 2d
     arrays]::) callback (i.e., ‘plcont’ (*note plcont; Contour plot::),
     ‘plimagefr’ (*note plimagefr; Plot a 2D matrix using cmap1::),
     ‘plshade’ (*note plshade; Shade individual region on the basis of
     value::), ‘plshades’ (*note plshades; Shade regions on the basis of
     value::), and ‘plvect’ (*note plvect; Vector plot::)); which then
     internally pass that argument on to this callback.

   This function is used in C examples 9, 16, 20, and 22.


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19.20 plTranslateCursor: Convert device to world coordinates
============================================================

     PLINT plTranslateCursor ( gin );

   Convert from device to world coordinates.  The variable gin must have
members dX and dY set before the call.These represent the coordinates of
the point as a fraction of the total drawing area.  If the point passed
in is on a window then the function returns 1, members wX and wY will be
filled with the world coordinates of that point and the subwindow member
will be filled with the index of the window on which the point falls.
If the point falls on more than one window (because they overlap) then
the window with the lowest index is used.  If the point does not fall on
a window then the function returns 0, wX and wY are set to 0 and
subwindow remains unchanged.

‘gin’ (‘‘PLGraphicsIn’ (*note PLGraphicsIn; PLplot Graphics Input structure::) *’, input/output)
     Pointer to a ‘PLGraphicsIn’ (*note PLGraphicsIn; PLplot Graphics
     Input structure::) structure to hold the input and output
     coordinates.

   This function is not used in any of our C examples.


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19.21 PLGraphicsIn: PLplot Graphics Input structure
===================================================

The ‘PLGraphicsIn’ structure is used by ‘plGetCursor’ (*note
plGetCursor; Wait for graphics input event and translate to world
coordinates_::) and ‘plTranslateCursor’ (*note plTranslateCursor;
Convert device to world coordinates::) to return information on the
current cursor position and key / button state.  The structure contains
the following fields:

‘type’ (‘int’)
     Type of event (currently unused?).

‘state’ (‘unsigned int’)
     Key or button mask.  Consists of a combination of the following
     masks: ‘PL_MASK_SHIFT, PL_MASK_CAPS, PL_MASK_CONTROL, PL_MASK_ALT,
     PL_MASK_NUM PL_MASK_ALTGR, PL_MASK_WIN, PL_MASK_SCROLL,
     PL_MASK_BUTTON1, PL_MASK_BUTTON2, PL_MASK_BUTTON3, PL_MASK_BUTTON4,
     PL_MASK_BUTTON5’.  The button values indicate mouse buttons.  Caps,
     num and scroll indicate that the appropriate lock is on.

‘keysym’ (‘unsigned int’)
     Key selected.

‘button’ (‘unsigned int’)
     Mouse button selected.

‘subwindow’ (‘PLINT’)
     Subwindow (or subpage / subplot) number.

‘string’ (‘char [PL_MAXKEY]’)
     Translated ascii character string.

‘pX, pY’ (‘int’)
     Absolute device coordinates of mouse pointer.

‘dX, dY’ (‘PLFLT’)
     Relative device coordinates of mouse pointer.

‘wX, wY’ (‘PLFLT’)
     World coordinates of mouse pointer.


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19.22 PLOptionTable: PLplot command line options table structure
================================================================

The ‘PLOptionTable’ structure is used by ‘plMergeOpts’ (*note
plMergeOpts; Merge use option table into internal info structure_::) to
pass information on user-defined command line options to PLplot.  The
structure contains the following fields:

‘opt’ (‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’)
     Name of option.

‘handler’ (‘int (*func) (PLCHAR_VECTOR, PLCHAR_VECTOR, PLPointer)’)
     User-defined handler function to be called when option is set.  A
     NULL value indicates that no user-defined handler is required.

‘client_data’ (‘PLPointer’)
     A pointer to client data.  A NULL value indicates that no client
     data is required.

‘var’ (‘PLPointer’)
     A pointer to a variable to be set to the value specified on the
     command-line option.

‘mode’ (‘long’)
     Type of variable ‘var’.  Allowed values are PL_OPT_FUNC,
     PL_OPT_BOOL, PL_OPT_INT, PL_OPT_FLOAT, PL_OPT_STRING.

‘syntax’ (‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’)
     Syntax for option (used in the usage message).

‘desc’ (‘PLCHAR_VECTOR’)
     Description of the option (used in the usage message).


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20 The Specialized Fortran API for PLplot
*****************************************

The purpose of this Chapter is to document the API for each Fortran
function in PLplot that differs substantially (usually in argument
lists) from the common API that has already been documented in *note The
Common API for PLplot::.

   Normally, the common API is wrapped in such a way for Fortran that
there is and one-to-one correspondence between each Fortran and C
argument with the exception of arguments that indicate array sizes (see
*note Fortran Language:: for discussion).  However, for certain routines
documented in this chapter the Fortran argument lists necessarily differ
substantially from the C versions.

   This chapter is incomplete and NEEDS DOCUMENTATION.

* Menu:

* plcont; Contour plot for Fortran : plcont; Contour plot for Fortran.
* plshade; Shaded plot for Fortran : plshade; Shaded plot for Fortran.
* plshades; Continuously shaded plot for Fortran : plshades; Continuously shaded plot for Fortran.
* plvect; Vector plot for Fortran : plvect; Vector plot for Fortran.
* plmesh; Plot surface mesh for Fortran : plmesh; Plot surface mesh for Fortran.
* plot3d; Plot 3-d surface plot for Fortran : plot3d; Plot 3-d surface plot for Fortran.
* plparseopts; parse arguments for Fortran : plparseopts; parse arguments for Fortran.
* plsesc; Set the escape character for text strings for Fortran : plsesc; Set the escape character for text strings for Fortran.


File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plcont; Contour plot for Fortran,  Next: plshade; Shaded plot for Fortran,  Up: The Specialized Fortran API for PLplot

20.1 plcont: Contour plot for Fortran
=====================================

This is an overloaded function with a variety of argument lists:


     	interface plcont
     	subroutine plcontour_0(z,kx,lx,ky,ly,clevel)
     	integer                          :: kx,lx,ky,ly
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	end subroutine plcontour_0

     	subroutine plcontour_1(z,kx,lx,ky,ly,clevel,xg,yg)
     	integer                          :: kx,lx,ky,ly
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: xg
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: yg
     	end subroutine plcontour_1

     	subroutine plcontour_2(z,kx,lx,ky,ly,clevel,xg,yg)
     	integer                          :: kx,lx,ky,ly
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: xg
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: yg
     	end subroutine plcontour_2

     	subroutine plcontour_tr(z,kx,lx,ky,ly,clevel,tr)
     	integer                          :: kx,lx,ky,ly
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(6)   :: tr
     	end subroutine plcontour_tr

     	subroutine plcontour_0_all(z,clevel)
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	end subroutine plcontour_0_all

     	subroutine plcontour_1_all(z,clevel,xg,yg)
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: xg
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: yg
     	end subroutine plcontour_1_all

     	subroutine plcontour_2_all(z,clevel,xg,yg)
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: xg
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: yg
     	end subroutine plcontour_2_all

     	subroutine plcontour_tr_all(z,clevel,tr)
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:) :: z
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)   :: clevel
     	real(kind=plflt), dimension(6)   :: tr
     	end subroutine plcontour_tr_all
     	end interface


   When called from Fortran, this overloaded routine has the same effect
as when invoked from C. See ‘examples/fortran/x??f.f90’ for various ways
to call plcont from Fortran.

   The meaning of the various arguments is as follows:

‘z’ (‘real(kind=plflt), dimension(:,:)’, input)
     Matrix containing the values to be plotted.

‘kx, lx’ (‘integer’, input)
     Range for the first index in the matrix ‘z’ to consider.  If not
     given, then the whole first index is considered.

‘clevel’ (‘real(kind=plflt), dimension(:)’, input)
     Levels at which the contours are computed and drawn.

‘kx, lx’ (‘integer’, input)
     Range for the first index in the matrix ‘z’ to consider.  If not
     given, then the whole first index is considered.

‘ky, ly’ (‘integer’, input)
     Range for the second index in the matrix ‘z’ to consider.  If not
     given, then the whole second index is considered.

‘xg’ (‘real(kind=plft), dimension(:)’ or ‘real(kind=plft), dimension(:,:)’, input)
     The x-coordinates for the grid lines (if one-dimensional) or the
     x-coordinates of the grid vertices (if two-dimensional).  The
     values in the matrix are plotted at these coordinates.  If not
     given, implicit coordinates are used (equal to the indices in the
     matrix).

‘yg’ (‘real(kind=plft), dimension(:)’ or ‘real(kind=plft), dimension(:,:)’, input)
     The y-coordinates for the grid lines (if one-dimensional) or the
     x-coordinates of the grid vertices (if two-dimensional).  The
     values in the matrix are plotted at these coordinates.

‘tr’ (‘real(kind=plft), dimension(6)’, input)
     The coefficients of an affine transformation:


          		x = tr(1) * ix + tr(2) * iy + tr(3)
          		y = tr(4) * ix + tr(5) * iy + tr(6)


     The indices of the matrix element are used to compute the "actual"
     coordinates according to the above formulae.


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20.2 plshade: Shaded plot for Fortran
=====================================

This is an overloaded function with a variety of argument lists which
NEED DOCUMENTATION.

   When called from Fortran, this overloaded routine has the same effect
as when invoked from C. See ‘examples/fortran/x??f.f90’ for various ways
to call plshade from Fortran.


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20.3 plshades: Continuously shaded plot for Fortran
===================================================

This is an overloaded function with a variety of argument lists which
NEED DOCUMENTATION.

   When called from Fortran, this overloaded routine has the same effect
as when invoked from C. See ‘examples/fortran/x??f.f90’ for various ways
to call plshades from Fortran.


File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plvect; Vector plot for Fortran,  Next: plmesh; Plot surface mesh for Fortran,  Prev: plshades; Continuously shaded plot for Fortran,  Up: The Specialized Fortran API for PLplot

20.4 plvect: Vector plot for Fortran
====================================

This is an overloaded function with a variety of argument lists which
NEED DOCUMENTATION.

   When called from Fortran, this overloaded routine has the same effect
as when invoked from C. See ‘examples/fortran/x??f.f90’ for various ways
to call plvect from Fortran.


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20.5 plmesh: Plot surface mesh for Fortran
==========================================

     plmesh (x, y, z, nx, ny, opt, mx);

   When called from Fortran, this routine has the same effect as when
invoked from C. The interpretation of all parameters (see ‘plmesh’
(*note plmesh; Plot surface mesh::)) is also the same except there is an
additional parameter given by:

‘mx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Length of array in x direction, for plotting subarrays.


File: plplotdoc.info,  Node: plot3d; Plot 3-d surface plot for Fortran,  Next: plparseopts; parse arguments for Fortran,  Prev: plmesh; Plot surface mesh for Fortran,  Up: The Specialized Fortran API for PLplot

20.6 plot3d: Plot 3-d surface plot for Fortran
==============================================

     plot3d (x, y, z, nx, ny, opt, side, mx);

   When called from Fortran, this routine has the same effect as when
invoked from C. The interpretation of all parameters (see ‘plot3d’
(*note plot3d; Plot 3-d surface plot::)) is also the same except there
is an additional parameter given by:

‘mx’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Length of array in x direction, for plotting subarrays.


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20.7 plparseopts: parse arguments for Fortran
=============================================

     plparseopts (mode);

   When called from Fortran, this routine has the same effect as when
invoked from C (see ‘plparseopts’ (*note plparseopts; Parse command-line
arguments::)) except that the argument list just contains the parsing
mode and the Fortran system routines ‘iargc’ and ‘getarg’ are used
internally to obtain the number of arguments and argument values.
(Note, during configuration, the user’s Fortran compiler is checked to
see whether it supports ‘iargc’ and ‘getarg’.  If it does not, the
Fortran plparseopts simply writes a warning message and returns.

‘mode’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     Parsing mode; see ‘plparseopts’ (*note plparseopts; Parse
     command-line arguments::) for details.


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20.8 plsesc: Set the escape character for text strings for Fortran
==================================================================

     plsesc (esc);

   Set the escape character for text strings.  From Fortran it needs to
be the decimal ASCII value.  Only selected characters are allowed to
prevent the user from shooting himself in the foot (For example, a ‘\’
isn’t allowed since it conflicts with C’s use of backslash as a
character escape).  Here are the allowed escape characters and their
corresponding decimal ASCII values:

   • ‘!’, ASCII 33

   • ‘#’, ASCII 35

   • ‘$’, ASCII 36

   • ‘%’, ASCII 37

   • ‘&’, ASCII 38

   • ‘*’, ASCII 42

   • ‘@’, ASCII 64

   • ‘^’, ASCII 94

   • ‘~’, ASCII 126

‘esc’ (‘char’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION


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21 API compatibility definition
*******************************

This chapter presents the formal definition of what is considered to be
in the PLplot library API. It is assumed that major new releases of
PLplot will have substantial backwards incompatible changes in the API,
but the PLplot developers commit to introducing as few as possible of
such incompatibilities between minor releases such that stability across
those minor releases is practically guaranteed.  In all cases where
backwards incompatible changes have been introduced, then the library
soname will be changed (for operating systems such as Linux that support
versioned shared libraries).

   The information in this chapter regards version 5.13.0 of PLplot,
released on 2017-08-26.

* Menu:

* What is in the API? : What is in the API?.
* Regression test for backwards compatibility : Regression test for backwards compatibility.


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21.1 What is in the API?
========================

The formal definition of the PLplot C API is everything that is defined
in the include file ‘plplot.h’.  This includes all the function
prototypes, the defined structures and the semantics of the constants.
The list of symbols currently exported by the shared library
‘libplplot.h’ that are declared in ‘plplot.h’ is the following:

     plAlloc2dGrid           plgcol0a                plscmap1a
     plClearOpts             plgcolbg                plscmap1l
     plFindCommand           plgcolbga               plscmap1la
     plFindName              plgcompression          plscmap1n
     plFree2dGrid            plgdev                  plscol0
     plGetCursor             plgdidev                plscol0a
     plGetFlt                plgdiori                plscolbg
     plGetInt                plgdiplt                plscolbga
     plGetName               plgdrawmode             plscolor
     plMergeOpts             plgesc                  plscompression
     plMinMax2dGrid          plgfam                  plsdev
     plOptUsage              plgfci                  plsdevdata
     plResetOpts             plgfile                 plsdidev
     plSetUsage              plgfnam                 plsdimap
     plTranslateCursor       plgfont                 plsdiori
     pl_cmd                  plglevel                plsdiplt
     pl_setcontlabelformat   plgpage                 plsdiplz
     pl_setcontlabelparam    plgra                   plsdrawmode
     pladv                   plgradient              plseed
     plarc                   plgriddata              plseopH
     plaxes                  plgspa                  plsesc
     plbin                   plgstrm                 plsetopt
     plbop                   plgver                  plsexit
     plbox                   plgvpd                  plsfam
     plbox3                  plgvpw                  plsfci
     plbtime                 plgxax                  plsfile
     plcalc_world            plgyax                  plsfnam
     plclear                 plgzax                  plsfont
     plcol0                  plhist                  plshade
     plcol1                  plhlsrgb                plshade1
     plcolorbar              plimage                 plshades
     plconfigtime            plimagefr               plslabelfunc
     plcont                  plinit                  plsmaj
     plcpstrm                pljoin                  plsmem
     plctime                 pllab                   plsmema
     pldid2pc                pllegend                plsmin
     pldip2dc                pllightsource           plsori
     plend                   plline                  plspage
     plend1                  plline3                 plspal0
     plenv                   pllsty                  plspal1
     plenv0                  plmap                   plspause
     pleop                   plmapfill               plsstrm
     plerrx                  plmapline               plssub
     plerry                  plmapstring             plssym
     plf2eval                plmaptex                plstar
     plf2eval1               plmeridians             plstart
     plf2eval2               plmesh                  plstransform
     plf2evalr               plmeshc                 plstring
     plf2ops_c               plmkstrm                plstring3
     plf2ops_grid_c          plmtex                  plstripa
     plf2ops_grid_col_major  plmtex3                 plstripc
     plf2ops_grid_row_major  plot3d                  plstripd
     plfamadv                plot3dc                 plstyl
     plfcont                 plot3dcl                plsurf3d
     plfgriddata             plparseopts             plsurf3dl
     plfill                  plpat                   plsvect
     plfill3                 plpath                  plsvpa
     plfimage                plpoin                  plsxax
     plfimagefr              plpoin3                 plsxwin
     plflush                 plpoly3                 plsyax
     plfmesh                 plprec                  plsym
     plfmeshc                plpsty                  plszax
     plfont                  plptex                  pltext
     plfontld                plptex3                 pltimefmt
     plfplot3d               plrandd                 pltr0
     plfplot3dc              plreplot                pltr1
     plfplot3dcl             plrgbhls                pltr2
     plfshade                plsButtonEH             pltr2f
     plfshade1               plsError                pltr2p
     plfshades               plsKeyEH                plvasp
     plfsurf3d               plsabort                plvect
     plfsurf3dl              plsbopH                 plvpas
     plfvect                 plschr                  plvpor
     plgDevs                 plscmap0                plvsta
     plgFileDevs             plscmap0a               plw3d
     plgchr                  plscmap0n               plwidth
     plgcmap1_range          plscmap1                plwind
     plgcol0                 plscmap1_range          plxormod

   Another important aspect of compatibility regard the Application
Binary Interface (ABI). Backwards compatibility can be broken by changes
in the C structures made public through ‘plplot.h’.  Currently, they
are:

     typedef struct
     {
         PLCHAR_VECTOR opt;
         int ( *handler )( PLCHAR_VECTOR, PLCHAR_VECTOR, PLPointer );
         PLPointer     client_data;
         PLPointer     var;
         long          mode;
         PLCHAR_VECTOR syntax;
         PLCHAR_VECTOR desc;
     } PLOptionTable;

     typedef struct
     {
         int          type;              // of event (CURRENTLY UNUSED)
         unsigned int state;             // key or button mask
         unsigned int keysym;            // key selected
         unsigned int button;            // mouse button selected
         PLINT        subwindow;         // subwindow (alias subpage, alias subplot) number
         char         string[PL_MAXKEY]; // translated string
         int          pX, pY;            // absolute device coordinates of pointer
         PLFLT        dX, dY;            // relative device coordinates of pointer
         PLFLT        wX, wY;            // world coordinates of pointer
     } PLGraphicsIn;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT dxmi, dxma, dymi, dyma;       // min, max window rel dev coords
         PLFLT wxmi, wxma, wymi, wyma;       // min, max window world coords
     } PLWindow;

     typedef struct
     {
         unsigned int x, y;                  // upper left hand corner
         unsigned int width, height;         // window dimensions
     } PLDisplay;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT_FE_POINTER f;
         PLINT            nx, ny, nz;
     } PLfGrid;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT_NC_MATRIX f;
         PLINT           nx, ny;
     } PLfGrid2;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT_NC_FE_POINTER xg, yg, zg;
         PLINT nx, ny, nz;
     } PLcGrid;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT_NC_MATRIX xg, yg, zg;
         PLINT           nx, ny;
     } PLcGrid2;

     typedef struct
     {
         unsigned char r;            // red
         unsigned char g;            // green
         unsigned char b;            // blue
         PLFLT         a;            // alpha (or transparency)
         PLCHAR_VECTOR name;
     } PLColor;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT h;                    // hue
         PLFLT l;                    // lightness
         PLFLT s;                    // saturation
         PLFLT p;                    // position
         PLFLT a;                    // alpha (or transparency)
         int   alt_hue_path;         // if set, interpolate through h=0
     } PLControlPt;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLINT cmd;
         PLINT result;
     } PLBufferingCB;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT exp_label_disp;
         PLFLT exp_label_pos;
         PLFLT exp_label_just;
     } PLLabelDefaults;

     typedef struct
     {
         PLFLT ( *get )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy );
         PLFLT ( *set )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLFLT z );
         PLFLT ( *add )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLFLT z );
         PLFLT ( *sub )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLFLT z );
         PLFLT ( *mul )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLFLT z );
         PLFLT ( *div )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLFLT z );
         PLINT ( *is_nan )( PLPointer p, PLINT ix, PLINT iy );
         void ( *minmax )( PLPointer p, PLINT nx, PLINT ny, PLFLT_NC_SCALAR zmin, PLFLT_NC_SCALAR zmax );
         //
         // f2eval is backwards compatible signature for "f2eval" functions that
         // existed before plf2ops "operator function families" were used.
         //
         PLFLT ( *f2eval )( PLINT ix, PLINT iy, PLPointer p );
     } plf2ops_t;

     typedef struct
     {
         size_t    size;
         PLPointer buffer;
     } plbuffer;



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21.2 Regression test for backwards compatibility
================================================

Since PLplot is developed by so many people, the task of checking for
backwards compatibility of the library is very hard.  As for the 5.3.1
release, we do not have any rigorous regression test for check whether
the library is really backwards compatible.

   However, here are some rules to be followed by the Release Manager
prior to releasing a new version of PLplot:

   • Check if there are any changes in ‘plplot.h’.  If no prototype is
     changed, then the chances are high that no backwards
     incompatibilities have been introduced.  If new functions has been
     added, then the library soname will be kept, although the soversion
     strings in ‘cmake/module/plplot_version.cmake’ must be changed
     following the instructions in that file.

   • A necessary, but not sufficient test consists of the following:
     first, install the previous released version of PLplot in the
     system and compile all the examples ‘examples/c/x??c.’.  After
     that, install the to-be-released version of PLplot and try to run
     the previously compiled examples.  If they either link or run
     incorrectly, then backwards incompatibilities have been introduced
     and the soversion string must be upgraded from ‘x:y:z’ to
     ‘(x+1):0:0’.


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22 Obsolete/Deprecated API for PLplot
*************************************

The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimal documentation for
obsolete/deprecated API that appears in our C library to provide
backwards compatibility until these functions disappear.  Do not use
these functions, and if you already use them in legacy PLplot
applications, replace them by the suggested equivalents so you won’t be
caught out when they disappear.

* Menu:

* plclr; Eject current page : plclr; Eject current page.
* plcol; Set color : plcol; Set color.
* plhls; Set current color by HLS : plhls; Set current color by HLS.
* plHLS_RGB; Convert HLS color to RGB : plHLS_RGB; Convert HLS color to RGB.
* plpage; Begin a new page : plpage; Begin a new page.
* plrgb; Set line color by red, green : plrgb; Set line color by red; green.
* plrgb1; Set line color by 8-bit RGB values : plrgb1; Set line color by 8-bit RGB values.
* plwid; Set pen width : plwid; Set pen width.


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22.1 plclr: Eject current page
==============================

     plclr ();

   Removed.  Use the new name, ‘pleop’ (*note pleop; Eject current
page::), for this function instead.


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22.2 plcol: Set color
=====================

     plcol (color);

   Removed.  Use the new name, ‘plcol0’ (*note plcol0; Set color;
cmap0::), for this function instead.

‘color’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     See ‘plcol0’ (*note plcol0; Set color; cmap0::).


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22.3 plhls: Set current color by HLS
====================================

     plhls (h, l, s);

   Set current color by hue, lightness, and saturation.  Convert hls
color coordinates to rgb, then call plrgb.  This function has been
removed.  Use ‘plhlsrgb’ (*note plhlsrgb; Convert HLS color to RGB::)
and ‘plscol0’ (*note plscol0; Set 8-bit RGB values for given cmap0 color
index::) instead.

‘h’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘l’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘s’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION


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22.4 plHLS_RGB: Convert HLS color to RGB
========================================

     plHLS_RGB (h, l, s, p_r, p_g, p_b);

   Removed.  Use ‘plhlsrgb’ (*note plhlsrgb; Convert HLS color to RGB::)
from the common API instead.

‘h’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Hue, in degrees on the color cone (0.0-360.0)

‘l’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Lightness, expressed as a fraction of the axis of the color cone
     (0.0-1.0)

‘s’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     Saturation, expressed as a fraction of the radius of the color cone
     (0.0-1.0)

‘p_r’ (‘PLFLT *’, output)
     Pointer to red intensity (0.0-1.0) of the color

‘p_g’ (‘PLFLT *’, output)
     Pointer to green intensity (0.0-1.0) of the color

‘p_b’ (‘PLFLT *’, output)
     Pointer to blue intensity (0.0-1.0) of the color


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22.5 plpage: Begin a new page
=============================

     plpage ();

   Removed.  Use the new name, ‘plbop’ (*note plbop; Begin a new
page::), for this function instead.


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22.6 plrgb: Set line color by red, green
========================================

     plrgb (r, g, b);

   Set line color by red, green, blue from 0.  to 1.  Do Removed.  Use
the function ‘plscol0’ (*note plscol0; Set 8-bit RGB values for given
cmap0 color index::) instead.

‘r’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘g’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘b’ (‘‘PLFLT’ (*note PLFLT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION


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22.7 plrgb1: Set line color by 8-bit RGB values
===============================================

     plrgb1 (r, g, b);

   Set line color by 8-bit RGB values.  Do _not_ use this.  Removed.
Use the function ‘plscol0’ (*note plscol0; Set 8-bit RGB values for
given cmap0 color index::) instead.

‘r’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘g’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION

‘b’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     NEEDS DOCUMENTATION


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22.8 plwid: Set pen width
=========================

     plwid (iwidth);

   Sets the pen width to an obsolete integer value.  This function is
deprecated.  Use ‘plwidth’ (*note plwidth; Set pen width::) instead
which sets the pen width to a floating-point value.

‘iwidth’ (‘‘PLINT’ (*note PLINT-type::)’, input)
     The desired pen width.  If ‘‘width’’ is negative or the same as the
     previous value no action is taken.  ‘‘width’ = 0’ should be
     interpreted as as the minimum valid pen width for the device.  The
     interpretation of positive ‘‘width’’ values is also device
     dependent.

   Redacted form: ‘plwid(iwidth)’

   This function is deprecated so not used in any of the standard
examples.


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23 Internal C functions in PLplot
*********************************

The purpose of this chapter is to document the API for every internal C
function in PLplot (other than language bindings) that is _not_ part of
the common API that has already been documented in *note The Common API
for PLplot:: or elsewhere.  The functions documented here are internal
plplot functions.  They are not intended for external use and may change
between releases.

   This chapter is a work that is just starting.  There are many C
functions in the code base that are not part of the common API, and we
haven’t even gotten to the point of listing them all.  What gets
documented here now is whatever C-explicit code we are trying to
understand at the time.

* Menu:

* plP_checkdriverinit; Checks to see if any of the specified drivers have been initialized : plP_checkdriverinit; Checks to see if any of the specified drivers have been initialized.
* plP_getinitdriverlist; Get the initialized-driver list : plP_getinitdriverlist; Get the initialized-driver list.


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23.1 plP_checkdriverinit: Checks to see if any of the specified drivers have been initialized
=============================================================================================

     plP_checkdriverinit (list);

   Checks to see if any of the specified drivers have been initialized.
Function tests a space-delimited list of driver names to see how many of
the given drivers have been initialized, and how often.  The return code
of the function is: ‘0’ if no matching drivers were found to have been
initialized; ‘-1’ if an error occurred allocating the internal buffer;
or, a positive number indicating the number of streams encountered that
belong to drivers on the provided list.  This function invokes
‘plP_getinitdriverlist’ (*note plP_getinitdriverlist; Get the
initialized-driver list::) internally to get a _complete_ list of
drivers that have been initialized in order to compare with the driver
names specified in the argument list to ‘plP_checkdriverinit’ (*note
plP_checkdriverinit; Checks to see if any of the specified drivers have
been initialized::).

‘list’ (‘char *’, input)
     Pointer to character string specifying a space-delimited list of
     driver names, e.g., ‘"bmp jpeg tiff"’.


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23.2 plP_getinitdriverlist: Get the initialized-driver list
===========================================================

     plP_getinitdriverlist (text_buffer);

   Get the initialized-driver list.  Function returns a space-delimited
list of the currently initialized drivers or streams.  If more than one
stream is using the same driver, then its name will be returned more
than once.  The function can be analogously thought of as also returning
the names of the active streams.  Invoked internally by
‘plP_checkdriverinit’ (*note plP_checkdriverinit; Checks to see if any
of the specified drivers have been initialized::).

‘text_buffer’ (‘char *’, output)
     Pointer to a user-allocated buffer to hold the result.  The user
     must ensure the buffer is big enough to hold the result.


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24 The PLplot Libraries
***********************

The purpose of this chapter is give an overview of the libraries that
are created as part of a PLplot build.  These consist of bindings
libraries to make the PLplot API accessible for various computer
languages or GUI environments, the PLplot core library which implements
the PLplot API in C, enhancement libraries which add essential
functionality the PLplot core library, and device-driver libraries which
help to implement some of our device drivers.

* Menu:

* Bindings Libraries::
* The PLplot Core Library::
* Enhancement Libraries::
* Device-driver Libraries::


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24.1 Bindings Libraries
=======================

The purpose of the PLplot bindings is to make the PLplot API documented
in *note The Common API for PLplot:: accessible from various computer
languages and GUI environments.  Some bindings (e.g., qt and cairo) are
implemented by a special form of "external" device.  Other bindings
(e.g., python) are implemented as shared objects which are dynamically
loaded by the language in question.  However, the majority of our
bindings are implemented as bindings libraries which must be
specifically linked by the application.  (See the Makefiles in the
installed examples tree for comprehensive examples of how we use
‘pkg-config’ to supply the necessary linking information.)  In turn
these bindings libraries are linked to the PLplot core library described
in *note The PLplot Core Library::.  We tabulate below the bindings
library or libraries associated with the compiled languages and GUI
environments we support in this specific way.

   *Bindings Libraries*

Bindings                             Libraries
Ada                                  libplplotada
C++                                  libplplotcxx
Fortran                              libplplotfortran
Tk GUI                               libplplottcltk, libtclmatrix
wxWidgets GUI                        libplplotwxwidgets


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24.2 The PLplot Core Library
============================

The PLplot core library is written in C and implements the PLplot API
documented in *note The Common API for PLplot::.  The name of that core
library is libplplot.  libplplot links to the enhancement libraries
documented in *note Enhancement Libraries::.  libplplot also normally
dynamically loads devices (a build mode is also available to put the
driver code right into the core library) which in turn can potentially
link to device-driver libraries that are described in *note
Device-driver Libraries::.


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24.3 Enhancement Libraries
==========================

The enhancement libraries add essential functionality to the PLplot core
library (see *note The PLplot Core Library::).  They consist of a cubic
spline approximation library, libcsirocsa; a natural neighbours
interpolation library, libcsironn; and a time format conversion library
libqsastime.

* Menu:

* The CSIRO Cubic Spline Approximation Library::
* The CSIRO Natural Neighbours Interpolation Library::
* The QSAS Time Format Conversion Library::


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24.3.1 The CSIRO Cubic Spline Approximation Library
---------------------------------------------------

libcsirocsa NEEDS DOCUMENTATION.


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24.3.2 The CSIRO Natural Neighbours Interpolation Library
---------------------------------------------------------

libcsironn NEEDS DOCUMENTATION.


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24.3.3 The QSAS Time Format Conversion Library
----------------------------------------------

This library grew out of a discussion with Steve Schwartz of the QSAS
Support Team, Cluster Science Centre, Imperial College and our mutual
frustrations with the poor time conversion capabilities of
POSIX-compliant computer operating systems.  For such systems, the
continuous time variable is often stored internally as a 32-bit integer
containing the number of seconds since 1970.  This gives a limited date
range of only 136 years, and a limited numerical precision of only a
second.  Furthermore, although the POSIX standard includes gmtime which
provides a conversion between broken-down time (year, month, day, hour,
min, sec), and the continuous time variable, the inverse of gmtime
(called timegm on Linux) is not a POSIX standard.  Finally, the POSIX
standard ignores leap seconds.  All these limitations are not acceptable
for plotting of scientific time series and are addressed by the qsastime
library which was originally donated under the LGPL to the PLplot
project in early 2009 by Anthony J. Allen of the QSAS team and
substantially modified after that by a PLplot developer, Alan W. Irwin
(e.g., to add leap-second functionality).

   The qsastime library uses MJD (modified Julian Date = Julian Date -
2400000.5) for the internal continuous time variable.  This variable is
stored as a signed int (to hold the integer part) and a double (to hold
the seconds since midnight).  On 32-bit systems, this combination gives
an effective date range of roughly +/- 6 million years from the MJD
epoch in late 1858 and an effective numerical time precision of 0.01 ns.
This should cover most range and precision requirements of those doing
plots of scientific time series.

   The qsastime library provides internal routines to convert between
the broken-down time representation and the internal continuous time
variable and vice versa using the formal rules of either the Gregorian
or Julian calendars.  These routines have been tested extensively for
the internal consistency of the routines both for the Gregorian and
Julian calendars and also by comparing the Gregorian results against the
equivalent Linux C library gmtime and timegm routines on a 64-bit
platform.  These tests were done for a number of epochs including every
year from -5000000 to 5000000 for critical dates in the year (January 1,
February 28, February 29, March 1, and December 31).  These extensive
tests give some confidence that the formal conversion from broken-down
to continuous time (and vice versa) should be reliable for the qsastime
library on all 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

   The qsastime library also provides an internal routine that gives
formatted time results as a function of continuous time.  This routine
has been lightly tested against the results of the C library strftime
routine on Linux.

   The three internal routines described above are wrapped by functions
that provide the externally visible API for the qsastime library.  This
API is described below.


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24.4 Device-driver Libraries
============================

Device-driver libraries are libraries which are built as part to the
PLplot build and which are linked by PLplot device drivers.  At this
time we only have one example of this, the NIST cd library which makes
it easy to create files in CGM format.  The original name of this
library was libcd, but we call it libnistcd to distinguish it from all
other "cd" libraries out there.  This library is linked by our cgm
device driver.

   CGM format is a long-established (since 1987) open standard for
vector graphics (see http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/).  The libnistcd
software was developed by G. Edward Johnson at NIST to provide
convenient access to the CGM format.  The library is no longer
maintained (the last official release was in 1997), but the software is
mature and works well.  Furthermore, it is in the public domain except
for the small part licensed under the libgd open-source license (see
lib/nistcd/cd.html in the PLplot source tree).  PLplot developers have
added a modern CMake-based build system for libnistcd and also have done
some visibility support so the code builds properly under Windows and
also under Linux with gcc when the -fvisibility=hidden option for gcc is
used.  Otherwise, the code is identical to the 1997 version.  For
documentation of the libnistcd API see lib/nistcd/cd.html in the PLplot
source tree.

