PLSYM(3plplot)

✨ PLSYM ✨

Okay so real talk bestie, this one is a PLplot API page — the manual name is PLplot API and the whole thing is about plsym, the little function that goes "here's a glyph, put it right there" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

plsym — plot a glyph at the specified points. That's it, that's the vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plsym(n, x, y, code)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically plsym plots a glyph at the specified points. Slay. ✨

Heads up bestie: this function is largely superseded by plstring(3plplot), which gives you access to many[!] more glyphs. Yes, they really wrote "many[!]" with the exclamation in brackets, iconic behaviour honestly. So like, plsym still works and everything, but plstring is the main character now 👑

Redacted form: plsym(x, y, code) — cute, shorter, same energy 🫶

This function is used in example 7. Go look at it, iykyk 💜

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• n (PLINT(3plplot), input) — number of points in the x and y vectors. Like, how many glyphs we're throwing down 🌈
• x (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the x coordinates of the points. All the horizontal vibes 📍
• y (PLFLT_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a vector containing the y coordinates of the points. All the vertical vibes 📍
• code (PLINT(3plplot), input) — the Hershey symbol code corresponding to a glyph to be plotted at each of the n points. That's your actual lil symbol, the star of the show ⭐

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Genuinely so many people, a whole squad, we love a collaborative era 💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving lore 🦋

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Okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes, periodt 💅✨ — this one's from August, 2026, part of the PLplot API docs. Love that for us 🫶🎀