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Version 2.41 Mar2009
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Virtually every ploticus attribute that produces text has an accompanying textdetails
specification for controlling appearance details such as point size, color, etc.<tt> </tt>
Text capabilities vary depending on what output format you're producing. See
<a href="fonts.html">
fonts
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for more information.<tt> </tt>
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<h2>Examples</h2>
Prefab example: <tt>titledet="size=12 adjust=0,0.2"</tt>
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Script example: <tt>titledetails: size=12 adjust=0,0.2</tt>
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Note that settings are separated from each other by space, but settings
themselves contain no embedded whitespace. Also, the entire specification
must be on one line.<tt> </tt>
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<h2>Settings</h2>
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<b>size</b>=<i>p</i>
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Point size of the text. 10 point is standard. A point is 1/72th of an inch.<tt> </tt>
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<b>style</b>=<i>s</i>
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<dt> <dd>
Style font variant. <i>s</i> may be either
<tt>B</tt> for bold, <tt>I</tt> for italic, <tt>BI</tt> for bold-italic,
or <tt>R</tt> for regular.
Has an effect only in certain graphics environments and cannot be combined with
the <b>font=</b> setting.<tt> </tt>
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<b>font</b>=<i>fontname</i>
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Use the font <i>fontname</i>.<tt> </tt>
Has an effect only in certain graphics environments and cannot be combined with
the <b>style=</b> subattribute. See
<a href="fonts.html">
fonts
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for more info.<tt> </tt>
If the font name you are specifying contains embedded whitespace, each whitespace character
must be encoded here using an exclamation point (!).<tt> </tt>
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<b>align</b>=<i>a</i>
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<dt> <dd>
Alignment or justification. <i>a</i> may be either
<tt>left</tt>, <tt>center</tt>, and <tt>right</tt> (use the whole word or just
the first letter, upper or lower case). In versions 2.40+ the following are supported to get
text that tracks downward or upward at a slant: <tt>downdiagonal</tt> and <tt>updiagonal</tt>
and these work for any output type.<tt> </tt>
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<b>linesep</b>=<i>f</i>
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Allows control over line spacing when multi-line text is rendered.
Default is 1.0. An <i>f</i> > 1.0 makes lines further apart; <i>f</i> < 1.0 makes lines closer together.<tt> </tt>
New in version 2.32.<tt> </tt>
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<b>adjust</b>=<i>x,y</i>
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Vector adjustment in
<a href="attributetypes.html#positionunits">
absolute units
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to default position.<tt> </tt>
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<b>color</b>=
<a href="color.html">
color
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<b>slantparm=</b><i>h</i>
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<dt> <dd>
If using <tt>align=downdiagonal</tt> or align=updiagonal to do X axis stubs,
this parameter can be used to control the amount of slant. It is the amount to move vertically
for every character, expressed as a proportion of text height. Default is 0.3; a value of 0.2 gives
a shallower slant, a value of 0.4 gives a steeper slant.<tt> </tt>
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<a href="../doc/welcome.html">
<img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br><small>data display engine <br>
<a href="../doc/Copyright.html">Copyright Steve Grubb</a>
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