Pwrite_family(3NCARG)

💖 Pwrite_family 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual — that's the manual name, it's giving very "vintage scientific plotting library" and honestly? iconic. and yes, it's a <purple>3NCARG</purple> page, section 3, we love a library call. sit down, grab a snack 🍓, we're doing this.

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✨ NAME ✨

Pwrite_family — a utility for drawing text and other characters using polylines. that's it, that's the whole vibe: letters, but made out of lines. 💅

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🫶 STATUS 🫶

no cap, Pwrite_family is obsolete. it has been replaced by the Plotchar utility. she's retired, she's living her best life, we don't call her anymore.

but listen — the entries PWRITX and PWRITY are still provided, for compatibility of early NCAR Graphics codes. so if you've got old code that needs them, they're still here, holding it down. 🥹

if you are writing new code, the suggestion is: use Plotchar. periodt. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

PWRITX (X,Y,IDPC,NCHAR,JSIZE,JOR,JCTR) - draws characters as stroked
polylines.  It is the higher quality routine of the Pwrite_family.
PWRITY (X,Y,IDPC,NCHAR,JSIZE,JOR,JCTR) - also draws characters as
stroked polylines, but is quicker, of lower quality, and with less
options than PWRITX.

let me translate that for you, bestie:

• PWRITX (X,Y,IDPC,NCHAR,JSIZE,JOR,JCTR) — draws characters as stroked polylines. she is the higher quality routine of the Pwrite_family. main character energy, honestly. 👑
• PWRITY (X,Y,IDPC,NCHAR,JSIZE,JOR,JCTR) — also draws characters as stroked polylines, but she's quicker, of lower quality, and with less options than PWRITX. it's giving "fast and loose but she gets the job done" 💀

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💜 ACCESS 💜

to use PWRITX or PWRITY, you gotta load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, ncarg_c, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order. 🫡

yes, ncarg_c is listed twice. no, i'm not fixing it. i do not make the rules, i just report them exactly as they are, character for character, because that is the law of the manpage. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Online: pwritx, pwrity, plotchar, plchhq, plchmq, plchlq
• Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version; User's Guide for NCAR GKS-0A Graphics

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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. read it, bestie, fr fr. 🙈

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and that's the page!! 💖 this was the Pwrite_family entry from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual, dated March 1993, living on a UNIX system, and it is so giving retro-graphics-core. go forth and draw your little polyline letters, but like... maybe use Plotchar instead. mwah 💋 🌈