PLSTRING(3plplot)

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version 5.15.0 · 12 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is <pink>PLplot API</pink> and the star of the show is plstring — it plots a glyph at the specified points ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plstring(n, x, y, string)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it do? It plots a glyph at the specified points. That's the whole vibe 💅

And listen — it supersedes plpoin(3plplot) and plsym(3plplot), because many[!] more glyphs are accessible with plstring(3plplot). Like, many with an exclamation in brackets. That's how many. Iconic honestly.

The glyph is specified with a PLplot user string. And here's the thing — that user string is not actually limited to one glyph, so it's totally possible (tho not normally useful, ngl) to plot more than one glyph at the specified points with this function. Multiple glyphs. One function. Main character energy 👑

And just like with plmtex(3plplot) and plptex(3plplot), that user string can contain:

  • FCI escapes to determine the font
  • UTF-8 code to determine the glyph
  • or else PLplot escapes for Hershey or unicode text to determine the glyph

Pick your fighter, bestie 🎀

Redacted form: plstring(x, y, string)

This function is used in examples 4, 21 and 26. Noted, memorized, slaying 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • n (PLINT(3plplot), input) — number of points in the x and y vectors. Like, how many points are we even doing here 💀
  • x (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the x coordinates of the points 📍
  • y (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the y coordinates of the points 📍
  • string (PLCHAR_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a UTF-8 character string containing the glyph(s) to be plotted at each of the n points 🔥 yes, glyph(s), plural is allowed, we been knew

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Fr fr, a whole community of legends 🫶💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, iykyk 📚✨

cute little sign-off: this page is from the PLplot API, dated August, 2026, and it's PLSTRING(3plplot) all the way down 🎀 bye bestie, go plot some glyphs 💖
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