GSTXFP(3NCARG)

💖 GSTXFP — set text font and precision 💖

okay bestie, welcome to GSTXFP, a lil routine from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual pages (this one lives in section 3NCARG). she's giving "set text font and precision" and honestly? she's iconic for it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

GSTXFP (Set text font and precision) — literally just sets the text font and precision. that's the whole job. she's a simple queen. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

CALL GSTXFP (FONT, PREC)

🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gset_text_font_prec(const Gtext_font_prec *text_font_prec);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

• FONT (Integer, Input) — picks which text font gets used in all the subsequent calls to the GTX output primitive. here are ur options, no cap:
  • 1 — ASCII font (this is the default)
  • -2 — Hershey cartographic Roman
  • -3 — Hershey cartographic Greek
  • -4 — Hershey simplex Roman
  • -5 — Hershey simplex Greek
  • -6 — Hershey simplex script
  • -7 — Hershey complex Roman
  • -8 — Hershey complex Greek
  • -9 — Hershey complex script
  • -10 — Hershey complex italic
  • -11 — Hershey complex Cyrillic
  • -12 — Hershey duplex Roman
  • -13 — Hershey triplex Roman
  • -14 — Hershey triplex italic
  • -15 — Hershey Gothic German
  • -16 — Hershey Gothic English
  • -17 — Hershey Gothic Italian
  • -18 — Hershey math symbols
  • -19 — Hershey symbol set 1
  • -20 — Hershey symbol set 2

so real talk: the Hershey fonts are not standardized by GKS — they're locally implemented in NCAR GKS-0A. and GKS is strict about this: any locally implemented font has to be given a negative font number. that's why all the Hershey ones have lil minus signs, bestie. 💅

want to actually see these fonts? go look at the plots produced from the PLOTCHAR example (run ncargex epltch to get a metafile) and check out the plot titled "PLCHHQ - FONTCAP DATABASES ADDED 6/90". the font numbers over there are the absolute values of the FONT value described here — because PLOTCHAR doesn't have to follow the strictures that GKS imposes on font names for GSTXFP. (PLOTCHAR said "rules are for other people" fr fr 🙈)

• PREC (Integer, Input) — sets the precision used in subsequent calls to the GTX output primitive, for the font type FONT. options:
  • 0 — String precision (good). this is the GKS default.
  • 1 — Character precision (better).
  • 2 — Stroke precision (best). this is the default for NCAR GSK-0A.

🔥 USAGE 🔥

here's the tea 🍓: if u access the Hershey fonts via GSTXFP and GTX, then the characters are not stroked until viewing time. but if u access the Hershey fonts via PLOTCHAR, then the characters are stroked by PLOTCHAR itself. and that can make a significant difference in metafile sizes. so like… choose wisely, it's giving ✨consequences✨.

💜 ACCESS 💜

to use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. load her up, she's ready. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

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

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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

okay that's the whole page, bestie, u ate that 💖 this lil baddie came to u from the UNIX manual, dated March 1993, under the name GSTXFP(3NCARG) — and yes, she's still serving font-and-precision realness after all these years. periodt. 💅✨🎀