PLSSYM(3plplot)

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version 5.15.0 · 12 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

plssym — the glow-up button for your symbols, bestie. It sets the symbol size, periodt. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

plssym(def, scale)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: every symbol that plpoin(3plplot) and plsym(3plplot) draw after you call this? Yeah, this function decides how big they're gonna be. It's giving puppet master. 🎭

The actual height of a symbol is literally the product of the default symbol size times a scaling factor — exactly the same way character height works. Math is math, iykyk. 🧮

Redacted form: plssym(def, scale)

Also fun fact, this function shows up in example 29, so go look at it being iconic in the wild. 👑

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • def (PLFLT(3plplot), input) — the default height of a symbol, in millimeters. If you want the default height to just… stay the way it is? Set this bad boy to zero. No notes. 💅
  • scale (PLFLT(3plplot), input) — the scale factor that gets applied to def to produce the actual symbol height. Multiply era fr fr. ✖️

👑 AUTHORS 👑

So many developers contributed to PLplot over its long and honestly iconic history, and they're all credited right here: http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php. Legends, every single one. 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

All the PLplot documentation lives at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving required reading. 📚

And that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 This lil number is PLSSYM(3plplot) from the PLplot API, dated August, 2026 — mwah, go draw some correctly-sized symbols. 💜

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