TIC MARK LABEL COLOR

...TIC MARK LABEL COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the color of the labels associated with the major tic marks on subsequent plots.

Dataplot provides two methods for specifying colors.
1. Colors can be defined by name (or by the corresponding index). Dataplot adopted it's named colors from the X11 project. Currently, 162 named colors and 100 levels of grayscale are supported. Grayscale can be specified with either G0, G1, ..., G100 (or -1, -2, ..., -100). Many older devices support only a limited number of colors. For these devices, unsupported colors will be mapped to one of the available colors. To specify a named color, see Syntax 1.

2. Most modern graphics devices support full RGB (RedBlueGreen) color. You can alternatively specify RGB colors by entering three integer values to represent the Red, Green and Blue components, respectively. These values should be in the range 0 to 255.

When setting the tic mark label RGB color, Dataplot first checks if the device supports RGB colors. If not, the named color will be used. If the device does support RGB color, Dataplot will check if an RGB color has been specified. If yes, then that RGB color is used. If not, the named color will be used.

To see the list of supported named colors (with the associated index number), see

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman1/ch11/homepage.htm

<prefix>TIC MARK LABEL COLOR <color>
where

no prefix refers to all 4 sides;
the prefix X refers to both horizontal sides;
the prefix Y refers to both vertical sides;
the prefix X1 refers to the lower horizontal side;
the prefix X2 refers to the upper horizontal side;
the prefix Y1 refers to the left vertical side;
the prefix Y2 refers to the right vertical side;

and <color> is a character string that specifies the desired color for the tic label.

<prefix>TIC MARK LABEL RGB COLOR <red> <green> <blue>
where

no prefix refers to all 4 sides;
the prefix X refers to both horizontal sides;
the prefix Y refers to both vertical sides;
the prefix X1 refers to the lower horizontal side;
the prefix X2 refers to the upper horizontal side;
the prefix Y1 refers to the left vertical side;
the prefix Y2 refers to the right vertical side;

            <red> is a number or parameter that specifies the red component;
            <green> is a number or parameter that specifies the green component;
and     <blue> is a number or parameter that specifies the blue component.

To turn off the RGB color, set the values to -1 (any negative value will work). Values greater than 255 will be set to 255.

TIC MARK LABEL COLOR GREEN
TIC MARK LABEL COLOR
X2TIC MARK LABEL COLOR GREEN
Y2TIC MARK LABEL COLOR GREEN
TIC MARK LABEL RGB COLOR 220 109 88
TIC MARK LABEL RGB COLOR 175 238 238

It is rare to assign different colors to tic mark labels on the 4 different sides. Whatever color is chosen for tic labels on one side is invariably chosen for all sides. The most common form (by far) for this command is the general one (with no prefix, as in TIC MARK LABEL COLOR GREEN) which defines the color uniformly for tic mark labels on all 4 frame sides.

A ...TIC MARK LABEL COLOR command with no arguments reverts the setting to default; thus X1TIC MARK LABEL COLOR with no arguments reverts the bottom horizontal tic label color to black. A ...TIC MARK LABEL COLOR command with no prefix refers to all 4 sides; thus TIC MARK LABEL COLOR GREEN sets tic mark labels to green for all 4 frame lines. TIC MARK LABEL COLOR with no prefix and no arguments reverts the tic label color to default on all 4 sides.

All tic mark labels are black.

TIC LABEL COLOR is a synonym for TIC MARK LABEL COLOR, as in TIC LABEL COLOR GREEN and X2TIC LABEL COLOR YELLOW.

TIC MARK LABEL	=	Specifies whether or not tic mark labels or drawn.
TIC MARK LABEL ANGLE	=	Sets the angle for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL CASE	=	Sets case for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL CONTENTS	=	Specify alphanumeric values for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DECIMALS	=	Sets the number of decimals for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DIRECTION	=	Sets the direction (horizontal/vertical) for TIC MARK labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DISPLACEMENT	=	Sets the distance between tic labels and the frame.
TIC MARK LABEL FONT	=	Sets the font for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT	=	Sets the format (alphanumeric, exponential, power of 10) for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL HW	=	Sets the height and width for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL JUSTIFICATION	=	Sets the justification for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL SIZE	=	Sets the height for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL THICKNESS	=	Sets the line width for tic labels.

Presentation Graphics

Pre-1987
2020/11: Support for RGB colors.

 
LEGEND 1 PRESENTATION GRAPHICS
LEGEND 2 3-D BAR HISTOGRAM
LET Y = DATA 392 341 307 203 115 59 38 32 29 28
LET N = NUMBER Y
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
.
LINES BLANK ALL
BAR ON ALL
BAR WIDTH .5 ALL
BAR DIMENSION 3 ALL
BAR FILL ONTS ALL
.
XLIMITS 1 10
XTIC OFFSET 1 1
MAJOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 10
MINOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 0
X1TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT ALPHA
X1TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT Apollo Sun HP DEC SYM SGI IBM DG TI Xerox
X1TIC MARK LABEL CASE ASIS
X1TIC MARK LABEL COLOR RED
Y1TIC MARK LABEL COLOR BLUE
YLIMITS 0 500
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE TIC MARK LABEL COLOR
PLOT Y X X
    

 
LEGEND 1 PRESENTATION GRAPHICS
LEGEND 2 3-D BAR HISTOGRAM
LET Y = DATA 392 341 307 203 115 59 38 32 29 28
LET N = NUMBER Y
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
.
LINES BLANK ALL
BAR ON ALL
BAR WIDTH .5 ALL
BAR DIMENSION 3 ALL
BAR FILL ONTS ALL
.
XLIMITS 1 10
XTIC OFFSET 1 1
MAJOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 10
MINOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 0
X1TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT ALPHA
X1TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT Apollo Sun HP DEC SYM SGI IBM DG TI Xerox
X1TIC MARK LABEL CASE ASIS
X1TIC MARK LABEL COLOR RED
X1TIC MARK LABEL RGB COLOR 220 109 88
Y1TIC MARK LABEL RGB COLOR 175 238 238
YLIMITS 0 500
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE TIC MARK LABEL COLOR
PLOT Y X X