PLSXAX(3plplot)

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✨ PLSXAX — bestie's guide to the x axis glow-up ✨

Okay so real quick, this little cutie lives in the PLplot API section 3plplot — welcome to the family 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

plsxax — sets the x axis parameters. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plsxax(digmax, digits)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Bestie listen, plsxax is the one that sets the values of the digmax and digits flags for the x axis. That's literally its whole job and it ate. 🔥

For the full tea, go check the PLplot documentation — there's more info over there, no cap.

Redacted form, so you know what it looks like in other languages:

plsxax(digmax, digits)

Also, fun fact, this function is used in example 31 — go look at it if you want to see it in the wild 🦋

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

  • digmax (PLINT(3plplot), input) — this is the variable that sets the maximum number of digits for the x axis. Here's the thing: if it's nonzero, the printed label gets switched to a floating-point representation whenever the number of digits exceeds digmax. So it's giving "we have limits and we're sticking to them". 😭
  • digits (PLINT(3plplot), input) — the field digits value. Okay so this one is lowkey a little diva: changing its value here has no effect right now, because it's only ever set by plbox(3plplot) or plbox3(3plplot). But like, you can still get its value after calling either of those two functions — just hit up plgxax(3plplot) and it'll tell you. 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

So many developers contributed to PLplot over its long history, and they're all credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php — legends, honestly. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

That's the whole page bestie!! Mwah 💋 This iconic little entry is from the PLplot API manual (3plplot), straight out of August, 2026, and you can find it filed under PLSXAX(3plplot) if you ever need to find it again. Slay, bye! 🎀💖✨

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