6.2. - cs set character sizes
lets you vary the height, width and slant of text characters and the
plotting symbol.
Changing the width of the symbol controls the width
of error bars (see
eb, below) and the size of data masking in
gd 4
(see Chapter 3).
cs
cs t|l|n|s|d|k height [ratio [slant]]
or
cs t|l|n|s|d|k
Character height is given in millimeters and refers to upper-case
letters.
The width is controlled by setting the ratio of height to
width.
Character slant is given in degrees.
Positive values slant
characters to the right, negative values to the left.
Without arguments, C-PLOT will prompt you separately
to set the height, height-to-width ratio and slant for the title,
axis labels, axis numbers, symbol, key, annotation and date.
The current
values are given in parentheses.
Only the parameters for which you
enter values will be changed.
Entering one value changes only the
height.
Entering two changes the height and the height-to-width ratio.
Entering three changes the height, height-to-width ratio and slant.
You also can apply the command to only one text group using the arguments
t, l, n, s, k or
d to select title, labels,
numbers, symbol, key and annotation or date, respectively.
If you enter the parameter for one type of text on the command line,
you will be prompted to set the height, height-to-width ratio and
slant for that text.
(Only one text type at a time can be set using
this method.) Alternatively, you can place the parameters for one
or more types of text on the command line along with values for height,
height-to-width ratio and slant.
For example, entering
cs s 6 2
sets the symbol height to 6 and its height-to-width ratio to 2.
The absolute character dimensions, given in millimeters, are always
accurate on the pen plotter.
The actual dimensions of characters drawn
with a graphics filter vary depending on the mapping of pen-plotter
units to the particular graphics device.
(Select filter-scaling factors,
or
sc, lets you control the mapping.
See Chapter 9.)
The example below shows text with various dimension settings:
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