PLFONT(3plplot)

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🎀 PLFONT 💅 (the 3plplot manual, bestie)

okay so you're in the PLplot API docs, and this little icon right here is all about ✨fonts✨. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

plfont — set the font, bestie. that's it. that's the whole job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plfont(ifont)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So plfont sets the font that gets used for all the text and symbols that come after you call it. main character energy for your glyphs, fr fr 💖

Now here's the ✨situation✨ — it depends on what kind of device you're drawing to:

  • For devices that still use Hershey fonts, this routine literally does nothing unless the Hershey fonts with the extended character set are loaded (peep plfontld(3plplot) for that 👀).
  • For unicode-aware devices that use system fonts instead of Hershey fonts, this routine goes and calls the plsfci(3plplot) routine under the hood, with the argument set up appropriately for the various cases listed below 🧚
🚨 Important vibe check: for unicode-aware devices, this way of specifying the font is deprecated. The much more flexible move is to call plsfont(3plplot) directly instead — which is lowkey the recommended glow-up (and plsfont(3plplot) gives you a user-friendly interface to plsfci(3plplot), iykyk). periodt.

Redacted form: plfont(ifont)

Where you'll see her: this function is used in examples 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, and 26 🔥

🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

  • ifont (PLINT(3plplot), input) — specifies the font, and here's the whole menu:
    • 1: Sans serif font (simplest and fastest) ⚡
    • 2: Serif font
    • 3: Italic font
    • 4: Script font ✍️

👑 AUTHORS 👑

So many developers have contributed to PLplot over its long history, and honestly? icons, all of them 💜. They're credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php — go give them their flowers 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php 📚

that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and pick a font (1 is the fastest, just saying ⭐). this lil slice of the 3plplot manual is dated August, 2026 🎀 bye bestie, slay your plots 💖🦋

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