GSET_TEXT_ALIGN(3NCARG)

💖 GSET_TEXT_ALIGN 💖 — like, the NCAR GRAPHICS manual page, bestie

okay so this is gset_text_align from 3NCARG (the NCAR Graphics crew) and it is literally the glow-up button for where your text sits. we're setting text alignment. that's the whole vibe. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

gset_text_align (Set text alignment) — sets the text alignment. yes that's it, that's the function, she does one thing and she does it flawlessly. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gset_text_align(const Gtext_align *text_align);

she takes a pointer, she takes a struct, she takes no nonsense. periodt. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the struct you're passing in has two little fields and they are everything:

• text_align.hor — (Input) this is the one that decides the horizontal alignment of the text you're about to draw. your options, bestie:
  • GHOR_NORM — Normal (this is the default, the "i woke up like this" option) 💖
  • GHOR_LEFT — Left
  • GHOR_CTR — Center
  • GHOR_RIGHT — Right
• text_align.vert — (Input) and this one handles the vertical alignment of the text to be drawn. the lineup:
  • GVERT_NORM — Normal (default again, she's the blueprint) ✨
  • GVERT_TOP — Top
  • GVERT_CAP — Cap
  • GVERT_HALF — Half
  • GVERT_BASE — Base
  • GVERT_BOTTOM — Bottom

like, six vertical options?? she has range. she contains multitudes. 🌈

👑 USAGE 👑

the way that text alignment positions the text extent rectangle… it's giving main character energy fr fr. here's the tea: the text extent rectangle rotates about the point that gets determined by your horizontal and vertical text alignment settings — that's text_align.hor and text_align.vert. so you're basically picking the pivot point. iykyk. 🫶

🔥 ACCESS 🔥

to use the GKS C-binding routines, you gotta load the ncarg_gks and ncarg_c libraries. no cap, that's the price of admission. 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Online: gtext(3NCARG), gset_text_path(3NCARG), gset_text_font_prec(3NCARG), gset_char_ht(3NCARG), gset_char_space(3NCARG), gset_char_up_vec(3NCARG), gset_char_expan(3NCARG), gset_colr_rep(3NCARG), gset_text_colr_ind(3NCARG), ginq_text_path(3NCARG), ginq_text_align(3NCARG), ginq_text_font_prec(3NCARG), ginq_char_ht(3NCARG), ginq_char_space(3NCARG), ginq_char_up_vec(3NCARG), ginq_char_expan(3NCARG), plotchar(3NCARG), gks(3NCARG), ncarg_gks_cbind(3NCARG)

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

the whole friend group showed up, we love a supportive squad. 🧚

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

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

ngl bestie, the license agreement is the one thing you actually have to read. don't be the person who skips it. 😭

and that's the page!! 🍓 this was the UNIX flavor, dated March 1993, and yes she's still serving GSET_TEXT_ALIGN(3NCARG) after all these years — an absolute icon, we stan a legacy queen. bye babes, go align some text 💜✨