PLSTYL(3plplot)

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version 5.15.0 · 12 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the PLplot API! This page is PLSTYL(3plplot), and it is literally all about plstyl — the function that sets the line style. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plstyl(nms, mark, space)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here is the tea: this sets up the line style for all lines subsequently drawn. a line consists of segments in which the pen is alternately down and up — think pen choreography, no cap 🩰. the lengths of these segments are passed in the vectors mark and space respectively. the number of mark-space pairs is specified by nms.

and bestie, if you want to return the line style to the default continuous line, plstyl(3plplot) should be called with nms =0 (see also pllsty(3plplot)). periodt.

Redacted form: plstyl(mark, space)

This function is used in examples 1, 9, and 14. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • nms (PLINT(3plplot), input) — the number of mark and space elements in a line. so a simple broken line can be obtained by setting nms=1. a continuous line is specified by setting nms=0. lowkey simple, highkey important. 💖
  • mark (PLINT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the lengths of the segments during which the pen is down, measured in micrometers.
  • space (PLINT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the lengths of the segments during which the pen is up, measured in micrometers.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. shoutout to the whole team, fr fr 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php. go read it, bestie 🫶

that’s the whole vibe check 💖 — this is the PLSTYL(3plplot) manual page from August, 2026. mwah, go style some lines. 🎀

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