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A.1 Symbols for styles ¶

Below is full list of all characters (symbols) which MathGL use for setting up the plot.

‘space ' '’

empty line style (see Line styles);

empty color in chart.

‘!’

set to use new color from palette for each point (not for each curve, as default) in 1D plotting;

set to disable ticks tuning in axis and colorbar;

set to draw grid lines at subticks coordinates too;

define complex variable/expression in MGL script if placed at beginning.

‘#’

set to use solid marks (see Line styles) or solid error boxes;

set to draw wired plot for axial, surf3, surf3a, surf3c, triplot, quadplot, area, region, bars, barh, tube, tape, cone, boxs and draw boundary only for circle, ellipse, rhomb;

set to draw also mesh lines for surf, surfc, surfa, dens, densx, densy, densz, dens3, or boundary for chart, facex, facey, facez, rect;

set to draw boundary and box for legend, title, or grid lines for table;

set to draw grid for radar;

set to start flow threads and pipes from edges only for flow, pipe;

set to use whole are for axis range in subplot, inplot;

change text color inside a string (see Font styles);

start comment in MGL scripts or in Command options.

‘$’

denote parameter of MGL scripts.

‘%’

set color scheme along 2 coordinates Color scheme;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘&’

set to pass long integer number in tick template xtick, ytick, ztick, ctick;

specifier of drawing user-defined symbols as mark (see Line styles);

operation in Textual formulas.

‘’’

denote string in MGL scripts or in Command options.

‘*’

one of marks (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

set to start flow threads from 2d array inside data (see flow);

operation in Textual formulas.

‘+’

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

set to print ‘+’ for positive numbers in axis, label, table;

operation of increasing last character value in MGL strings;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘,’

separator for color positions (see Color styles) or items in a list

concatenation of MGL string with another string or numerical value.

‘-’

solid line style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

place entries horizontally in legend;

set to use usual ‘-’ for negative numbers in axis, label, table;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘.’

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

set to draw hachures instead of arrows for vect, vect3;

set to use dots instead of faces for cloud, torus, axial, surf3, surf3a, surf3c, surf, surfa, surfc, dens, map;

delimiter of fractional parts for numbers.

‘/’

operation in Textual formulas.

‘:’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

stop color scheme parsing (see Color scheme);

range operation in MGL scripts;

style for axis;

separator of commands in MGL scripts.

‘;’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

start of an option in MGL scripts or in Command options;

separator of equations in ode;

separator of labels in iris.

‘<’

one of marks (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

style of vect, vect3;

align left in bars, barh, boxplot, cones, candle, ohlc;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘>’

one of marks (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

style of vect, vect3;

align right in bars, barh, boxplot, cones, candle, ohlc;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘=’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

set to use equidistant columns for table;

set to use color gradient for vect, vect3;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘@’

set to draw box around text for text and similar functions;

set to draw boundary and fill it for circle, ellipse, rhomb;

set to fill faces for box;

set to draw large semitransparent mark instead of error box for error;

set to draw edges for cone;

set to draw filled boxes for boxs;

reduce text size inside a string (see Font styles);

operation in Textual formulas.

‘^’

one of marks (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

set outer position for legend;

inverse default position for axis;

switch to upper index inside a string (see Font styles);

align center in bars, barh, boxplot, cones, candle, ohlc;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘_’

empty arrow style (see Line styles);

disable drawing of tick labels for axis;

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

set to draw contours at bottom for cont, contf, contd, contv, tricont;

switch to lower index inside a string (see Font styles).

‘[]’

contain symbols excluded from color scheme parsing (see Color scheme);

operation of getting n-th character from MGL string.

‘{}’

contain extended specification of color (see Color styles), dashing (see Line styles) or mask (see Color scheme);

denote special operation in MGL scripts;

denote ’meta-symbol’ for LaTeX like string parsing (see Font styles).

‘|’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

set to use sharp color scheme (see Color scheme);

set to limit width by subplot width for table;

delimiter in list command;

operation in Textual formulas.

‘\’

string continuation symbol on next line for MGL scripts.

‘~’

disable drawing of tick labels for axis and colorbar;

disable first segment in lamerey;

reduce number of segments in plot and tens;

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme).

‘0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9’

line width (see Line styles);

brightness of a color (see Color styles);

precision of numbers in axis, label, table;

kind of smoothing (for digits 1,3,5) in smooth;

digits for a value.

‘4,6,8’

set to draw square, hex- or octo-pyramids instead of cones in cone, cones.

‘A,B,C,D,E,F,a,b,c,d,e,f’

can be hex-digit for color specification if placed inside {} (see Color styles).

‘A’

arrow style (see Line styles);

set to use absolute position in whole picture for text, colorbar, legend.

‘a’

set to use absolute position in subplot for text;

style of plot, radar, tens, area, region to draw segments between points outside of axis range;

style of bars, barh, cones.

‘B’

dark blue color (see Color styles).

‘b’

blue color (see Color styles);

bold font face if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

‘C’

dark cyan color (see Color styles);

align text to center if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

‘c’

cyan color (see Color styles);

name of color axis;

cosine transform for transform.

‘D’

arrow style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme).

‘d’

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

start hex-dash description if placed inside {} (see Line styles).

‘E’

dark green-yellow color (see Color styles).

‘e’

green-yellow color (see Color styles).

‘F’

set fixed bar widths in bars, barh;

set LaTeX-like format for numbers in axis, label, table.

‘f’

style of bars, barh;

style of vect, vect3;

set fixed format for numbers in axis, label, table;

Fourier transform for transform.

‘G’

dark green color (see Color styles).

‘g’

green color (see Color styles).

‘H’

dark gray color (see Color styles).

‘h’

gray color (see Color styles);

Hankel transform for transform.

‘I’

arrow style (see Line styles);

set colorbar position near boundary.

‘i’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

italic font face if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

set to use inverse values for cloud, pipe, dew;

set to fill only area with y1<y<y2 for region;

inverse Fourier transform for transform, transforma, fourier.

‘j’

line dashing style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme).

‘K’

arrow style (see Line styles).

‘k’

black color (see Color styles).

‘L’

dark green-blue color (see Color styles);

align text to left if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

‘l’

green-blue color (see Color styles).

‘M’

dark magenta color (see Color styles).

‘m’

magenta color (see Color styles).

‘N’

dark sky-blue color (see Color styles).

‘n’

sky-blue color (see Color styles).

‘O’

arrow style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme).

‘o’

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

over-line text if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

‘P’

dark purple color (see Color styles).

‘p’

purple color (see Color styles).

‘Q’

dark orange or brown color (see Color styles).

‘q’

orange color (see Color styles).

‘R’

dark red color (see Color styles);

align text to right if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles).

‘r’

red color (see Color styles).

‘S’

arrow style (see Line styles);

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme).

‘s’

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Color scheme);

start hex-mask description if placed inside {} (see Color scheme);

sine transform for transform.

‘t’

draw tubes instead of cones in cone, cones;

‘T’

arrow style (see Line styles);

place text under the curve for text, cont, cont3.

‘t’

set to draw text labels for cont, cont3;

name of t-axis (one of ternary axis);

variable in Textual formulas, which usually is varied in range [0,1].

‘U’

dark blue-violet color (see Color styles);

disable rotation of tick labels for axis.

‘u’

blue-violet color (see Color styles);

under-line text if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles);

name of u-axis (one of ternary axis);

variable in Textual formulas, which usually denote array itself.

‘V’

arrow style (see Line styles);

place text centering on vertical direction for text.

‘v’

one of marks (see Line styles);

set to draw vectors on flow threads for flow and on segments for lamerey.

‘W’

bright gray color (see Color styles).

‘w’

white color (see Color styles);

wired text if placed after ‘:’ (see Font styles);

name of w-axis (one of ternary axis);

‘X’

arrow style (see Line styles).

‘x’

name of x-axis or x-direction or 1st dimension of a data array;

start hex-color description if placed inside {} (see Color styles);

one of marks (see Line styles) or kind of error boxes;

tiles orientation perpendicular to x-axis in tile, tiles;

style of tape.

‘Y’

dark yellow or gold color (see Color styles).

‘y’

yellow color (see Color styles);

name of y-axis or y-direction or 2nd dimension of a data array;

tiles orientation perpendicular to y-axis in tile, tiles.

‘z’

name of z-axis or z-direction or 3d dimension of a data array;

style of tape.