PLBOP(3plplot)

💅 NAME 💅

plbop — bestie, this one begins a brand new page ✨

So like, we're in the PLplot API manual page for PLBOP(3plplot), and yeah — this is the "new page, new me" function 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plbop()

That's it. No args. No options. Just vibes 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so plbop() begins a new page. That's the whole assignment, and it ate, no cap 👑

For a file driver, the output file gets opened if necessary — like, it handles that for you, you don't gotta do a thing 🫶.

Now here's where it gets interesting, bestie. Advancing the page via pleop(3plplot) and plbop(3plplot) is useful when a page break is desired at a particular point when you're plotting to subpages. So if you're like "mm, yes, break the page right here" — this is your girl 💅

Another use for pleop(3plplot) and plbop(3plplot) is when you're plotting pages to different files — because you can manually set the file name by calling plsfnam(3plplot) after the call to pleop(3plplot). Iconic behavior fr fr 🌈

(In fact some drivers may only support a single page per file — making this an absolute necessity, not just a cute option 😭)

And if you want to handle this case automatically, one way is to page advance via pladv(3plplot) — but enable familying (see plsfam(3plplot)) with a small limit on the file size, so that a new family member file will be created on each page break. Lowkey genius 🧚

Redacted form: plbop()

This function is used in examples 2 and 20. Go look at 'em, iykyk 👀

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Not one person — a whole squad, and honestly? Respect 😤💜

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving main character energy 📚✨

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and that's the page! 💀🙈 this was PLBOP(3plplot), from August, 2026 — version slay, manual PLplot API, mwah 🍓💖