GSTXP(3NCARG)

✨ GSTXP (Set text path) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the glow-up era of your text 💅 this little routine sets the text paths — aka the directions — in which text gets drawn. it's giving "which way do the letters walk", and honestly? iconic.

it lives in the NCAR Graphics manual, section 3NCARG, and no it's not a new app, it's Fortran from 1992 and it still ate. 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL GSTXP (TXP)

🎀 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gset_text_path(Gtext_path text_path);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

• TXP — (Integer, Input) — the direction your character string gets drawn in. this is the whole vibe check of the routine. your options are:
  • 0 — draw successive characters in the string so that character n+l appears to the right of character n. this is text path "right" and it's the default, so if you don't say anything, bestie, this is what you get. 💅
  • 1 — draw character n+1 to the left of character n. this is text path "left".
  • 2 — draw character n+1 above character n. this is text path "up".
  • 3 — draw character n+1 below character n. this is text path "down".

the right, left, up, and down directions are all relative to the character up vector. and listen — the right text path direction is perpendicular to the up vector direction. so the way that these two things interact is genuinely the whole plot twist. 🌈

like, to draw a text string at a 45 degree angle, the character up vector would be (-1,1), and the text path would be right. that's it. that's the move. periodt. ✨

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🔑 ACCESS 🔑

to use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. that's the entry fee, bestie, no cap. 🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Online: gtx, gstxal, gstxfp, gschh, gschsp, gschup, gschxp, gscr, gstxci, gqtxp, gqtxal, gqtxfp, gqchh, gqchsp, gqchup, gqchxp, plotchar, gset_text_path

Hardcopy: User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics; NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was the GSTXP entry from the NCAR Graphics manual, dated 14 January 1992, in the old-school UNIX manual formatting. go forth and rotate your text at 45 degrees, you main character. 🦋✨