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Dataplot Characters

Introduction Dataplot can draw a curve as a character or plot symbol at each point, as a connected line, as a spike from the point to a base, as a bar from the point to a base, or as any combination of the above (including drawing none or all of them). The choice is determined by the LINE, CHARACTER, SPIKE, and BAR commands. The switches for these commands work independently of each other.
Available Character Types The available character types are from 5 categories:
  1. common plotting characters
  2. any ascii keyboard character
  3. Greek symbols
  4. mathematics symbols
  5. miscellaneous symbols
  6. sample plot demonstrating use of characters
Case and Font The case (upper versus lower) and font (simplex, duplex, triplex, etc.) of the plot character follows the current setting of the CASE and FONT commands. The Greek, math, and miscellaneous symbols are available only when one of the Hershey fonts have been specified via the FONT or CHARACTER FONT commands.
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Common Plot Characters
Table of Common Plot Characters The common plot characters are listed in the following table.
    BLANK, NONE, BL, or NO blank
    CIRCLE or CI circle
    SQUARE, BOX, or SQ square
    DIAMOND or DI diamond
    SQUARE, BOX, or SQ square
    TRIANGLE or TR triangle
    REVTRI, TRIREV, or RT reverse triangle
    STAR or ST star
    ARROWU or AU arrow up
    ARROWD or AD arrow down
    VERTICAL BAR or VB vertical bar
    PYRAMID pyramid
    CUBE cube
    ARROW or ARRH arrow
    VECTOR vector
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ASCII Keyboard Characters
Table of the ASCII Keyboard Characters The ASCII keyboard characters are listed in the following table.
    0 to 9 0 to 9
    A to Z and a to z A to Z and a to z
    . period
    - bar
    + plus sign
    * asterisk
    [ left bracket
    ] right bracket
    { . left brace
    } right brace
    ! exclamation point
    " double quote
    # number
    $ dollar
    % percent
    & ampersand
    ' single quote
    ( left parenthesis
    ) right parenthesis
    : colon
    ; semi-colon
    , comma
    ? question mark
    ' apostrophe
    - underscore
    @ at sign
    / slash
    \ reverse slash
    = equal sign
    > greater than sign
    < less than sign
    | vertical bar
    ~ tilda
    ^ carat
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Example
Dataplot Program The following Dataplot code
    SERIAL READ LEAD
    164 426 59 98 312 263 607 497 213 54 160 262 547 325 419 94 70
    END OF DATA
    SERIAL READ POT
    106 175 61 79 94 121 424 328 107 218 140 179 246 231 245 339 99
    END OF DATA
    LET N = SIZE LEAD
    LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
    MULTIPLOT 2 2
    MULTIPLOT CORNER COORDINATES 0 0 100 100
    LINE BLANK BLANK
    CHARACTER X O
    TITLE AUTOMATIC
    .
    PLOT POT LEAD VS X
    CHARACTER CIRCLE SQUARE
    PLOT POT LEAD VS X
    .
    CHARACTER FILL ON ON
    CHARACTER COLOR BLUE RED
    PLOT POT LEAD VS X
    .
    CHARACTER HW 2.0 1.5 4.0 3.0
    PLOT POT LEAD VS X
    END OF MULTIPLOT
Dataplot Graph generated the following Dataplot graph.

Plot demonstrating use of characters in Dataplot

Date created: 06/05/2001
Last updated: 04/29/2022

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