GTX(3NCARG)

✨ GTX(3NCARG) ✨

okay bestie, come sit with me — this one's from the NCAR Graphics manual, and it's genuinely one of the most iconic little primitives in the whole toolkit. it's giving text-drawing royalty 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

GTX — the NCAR Graphics primitive for drawing text. yes that's it. that's the whole job. she draws words. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

CALL GTX (X, Y, STRING)

🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void gtext(const Gpoint *text_pos, const char *char_string);

not her having a whole C glow-up too 😭

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

GTX (Text) — this is the basic output primitive for drawing text. like, the moment you want actual letters on your plot, this is her.

and the way that she doesn't work alone?? bestie there are a whole squad of attribute-setting routines waiting to help you pick the size, the font, the precision, the orientation, the color, the character spacing, etc. literally the full glam team. 🧚✨

• X (Real, Input) — the X world coordinate of the text alignment of the first character in STRING.
• Y (Real, Input) — the Y world coordinate of the text alignment of the first character in STRING.
• STRING (Character variable, Input) — the characters to be drawn. the actual content. the main character, if you will. 👑

ngl, X and Y are both about the alignment point of the first character — not the middle of your string, not the last letter. first. character. periodt. 💀

🌈 ACCESS 🌈

to use GKS routines, load the NCAR GKS-0A library ncarg_gks. that's the doorway bestie, walk through it. 🚪✨

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

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

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

look at that list — the setters AND the getters, all alphabetized and thriving. iykyk 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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

legal girlies stay winning, always read the license 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one dropped in March 1993 under UNIX, tagged as GTX(3NCARG) — a true vintage icon and she ate ⭐🌸🦋

fr fr, if you're drawing text in NCAR Graphics, GTX is your girl. go set those attributes, slay, and remember the alignment point is the first character. no cap. 💖