PLOT_TEXT 

Call: PLOT_TEXT


x

The x-coordinate of the place near which the string is to be plotted. Which part of the string is located at (x,y) is determined by the alignment.

This argument is mandatory and should be of type Number.


y

The y-coordinate of the place near which the string is to be plotted. Which part of the string is located at (x,y) is determined by the alignment.

This argument is mandatory and should be of type Number.


representation

Any of the text representations that are currently defined. These include representations that are reserved for elements of graphs (such as TITLE) as well as some general purpose representations such as FUNCTION-1, FUNCTION-2 etc.

For convenience, a few text representations are provided that are not used by the program and that can therefore be modified at will. These include some commonly used fonts: Times Roman (TIMES-ROMAN) and Prestige Elite (PRESTIGE), but also Greek characters (GREEK), gothic characters (GOTHIC) and the italics for most of these (e.g. GOTHIC-ITALIC). Not all of these are available with all graphics systems.

The font should be specified with a variable of the type String.

[By default, the COMMENT text representation is used.]


alignment

The alignment determines which point of the text string has to be placed at the coordinate (x,y). The alignment should be specified as a String in the format `h-v` where h is one of the horizontal and v one of the vertical alignments.

[By default, the alignment is assumed to be `NORMAL-NORMAL`.]


orientation

Text is normally plotted horizontally, but you can ask to have the text plotted at an angle by giving this optional argument.

The orientation is a Number and should be specified in degrees.

[By default: 0\°.]


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Formatted on 21/01/18 at 16:55.