MGLVIEW(1)

👑 MGLVIEW — ok bestie, let's make some plots 💖

so this is the User Manuals page for mglview, and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, big main character energy". buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mglview — run your MathGL scripts and watch them pop up in a window, fr fr 🪟✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mglview [parameters] scriptfile

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the vibe: mglview reads MGL scripts out of scriptfile and turns them into plots of whatever functions or data you told it about. then it literally opens up a GUI window showing you the result of your script. no cap, it just... shows you. 💖

and here's the cute part — you can use - as the file name to read your script from standard input. iykyk, piping is iconic. 🫶

another option (the glow-up): use *.mgld files for quick viewing of 3d pictures. yes bestie, quick 3d viewing. obsessed. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -1 string — sets string as the argument $1 for your script.
• ...
• -9 string — sets string as the argument $9 for your script.
• -L locname — sets the locale to locname.
• -h — prints the help message. that's it, that's the whole job. 💅

yes bestie, that ... in the middle is doing heavy lifting — the args run all the way from $1 up through $9, same pattern the whole way down. nine lil slots for your script to snack on. 🍓

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

mglview was written by Alexey Balakin, and you can find the whole thing over at http://mathgl.sourceforge.net/ — go say hi, the way that URL has been serving since forever. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• mglconv(1)
• udav(1)
• mgl(5)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖✨ this one's from the MathGL manual, dated MARCH 2012 — vintage but still slaying. go plot something gorgeous, you got this 🧚🌸💜