GSTXP(3NCARG)

✨ GSTXP ✨ — it's giving set text path energy 💅

okay bestie, welcome to NCAR GRAPHICS land, where we have a whole little routine called GSTXP (that's short for Set text path, iykyk) and it does exactly one thing: it sets the text path — aka the direction in which text is gonna get drawn. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL GSTXP (TXP)

💖 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 💖

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gset_text_path(Gtext_path text_path);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea. you pass in one little integer and it tells the universe which way the characters should march. 🚶♀️➡️

• TXP — (Integer, Input) — this is the direction your character string gets drawn in. the options are literally these four and only these four, no cap:
  • 0 — draw successive characters in the string so that character n+l shows up to the right of character n. this one is text path "right" and it's the default. the moment of all moments. 👑
  • 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".

🫶 important lore: the right, left, up, and down directions are relative to the character up vector. the right text path direction is perpendicular to the up vector direction. so like, if you wanna draw a text string at a 45 degree angle, the character up vector would be (-1,1), and the text path would be right. math ate that fr fr. 🔥

🌈 ACCESS 🌈

to use GKS routines, you gotta load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. that's the key to the whole kingdom, bestie. 🔑

💜 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

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

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

and that's the whole page, gorgeous. this lil manual page lived on UNIX and got dated 14 January 1992, and it's still out here serving text paths in the GSTXP(3NCARG) chapter of the NCAR Graphics manual. slay, honestly. go draw some words at a 45 degree angle. 💅✨