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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 Стиль линий);

empty color in chart.

‘!’

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

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 Стиль линий) 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 Стиль текста);

start comment in Скрипты MGL or in Опции команд.

‘$’

denote parameter of Скрипты MGL.

‘%’

set color scheme along 2 coordinates Цветовая схема;

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘&’

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

specifier of drawing user-defined symbols as mark (see Стиль линий);

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘’’

denote string in Скрипты MGL or in Опции команд.

‘*’

one of marks (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

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

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘+’

one of marks (see Стиль линий) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

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

operation of increasing last character value in MGL strings;

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘,’

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

concatenation of MGL string with another string or numerical value.

‘-’

solid line style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

place entries horizontally in legend;

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

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘.’

one of marks (see Стиль линий) 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 Текстовые формулы.

‘:’

line dashing style (see Стиль линий);

stop color scheme parsing (see Цветовая схема);

range operation in Скрипты MGL;

style for axis;

separator of commands in Скрипты MGL.

‘;’

line dashing style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

start of an option in Скрипты MGL or in Опции команд;

separator of equations in ode;

separator of labels in iris.

‘<’

one of marks (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

style of vect, vect3;

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

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘>’

one of marks (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

style of subplot and inplot;

set position of colorbar;

style of vect, vect3;

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

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘=’

line dashing style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

set to use equidistant columns for table;

set to use color gradient for vect, vect3;

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘@’

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 Стиль текста);

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘^’

one of marks (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

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 Стиль текста);

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

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘_’

empty arrow style (see Стиль линий);

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 Стиль текста).

‘[]’

contain symbols excluded from color scheme parsing (see Цветовая схема);

operation of getting n-th character from MGL string.

‘{}’

contain extended specification of color (see Цвета), dashing (see Стиль линий) or mask (see Цветовая схема);

denote special operation in Скрипты MGL;

denote ’meta-symbol’ for LaTeX like string parsing (see Стиль текста).

‘|’

line dashing style (see Стиль линий);

set to use sharp color scheme (see Цветовая схема);

set to limit width by subplot width for table;

delimiter in list command;

operation in Текстовые формулы.

‘\’

string continuation symbol on next line for Скрипты MGL.

‘~’

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 Цветовая схема).

‘0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9’

line width (see Стиль линий);

brightness of a color (see Цвета);

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 Цвета).

‘A’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

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 Цвета).

‘b’

blue color (see Цвета);

bold font face if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

‘C’

dark cyan color (see Цвета);

align text to center if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

‘c’

cyan color (see Цвета);

name of color axis;

cosine transform for transform.

‘D’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема).

‘d’

one of marks (see Стиль линий) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

start hex-dash description if placed inside {} (see Стиль линий).

‘E’

dark green-yellow color (see Цвета).

‘e’

green-yellow color (see Цвета).

‘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 Цвета).

‘g’

green color (see Цвета).

‘H’

dark gray color (see Цвета).

‘h’

gray color (see Цвета);

Hankel transform for transform.

‘I’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

set colorbar position near boundary.

‘i’

line dashing style (see Стиль линий);

italic font face if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

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 Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема).

‘K’

arrow style (see Стиль линий).

‘k’

black color (see Цвета).

‘L’

dark green-blue color (see Цвета);

align text to left if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

‘l’

green-blue color (see Цвета).

‘M’

dark magenta color (see Цвета).

‘m’

magenta color (see Цвета).

‘N’

dark sky-blue color (see Цвета).

‘n’

sky-blue color (see Цвета).

‘O’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема).

‘o’

one of marks (see Стиль линий) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

over-line text if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

‘P’

dark purple color (see Цвета).

‘p’

purple color (see Цвета).

‘Q’

dark orange or brown color (see Цвета).

‘q’

orange color (see Цвета).

‘R’

dark red color (see Цвета);

align text to right if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста).

‘r’

red color (see Цвета).

‘S’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема).

‘s’

one of marks (see Стиль линий) or kind of error boxes;

one of mask for face filling (see Цветовая схема);

start hex-mask description if placed inside {} (see Цветовая схема);

sine transform for transform.

‘t’

draw tubes instead of cones in cone, cones;

‘T’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

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 Текстовые формулы, which usually is varied in range [0,1].

‘U’

dark blue-violet color (see Цвета);

disable rotation of tick labels for axis.

‘u’

blue-violet color (see Цвета);

under-line text if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста);

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

variable in Текстовые формулы, which usually denote array itself.

‘V’

arrow style (see Стиль линий);

place text centering on vertical direction for text.

‘v’

one of marks (see Стиль линий);

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

‘W’

bright gray color (see Цвета).

‘w’

white color (see Цвета);

wired text if placed after ‘:’ (see Стиль текста);

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

‘X’

arrow style (see Стиль линий).

‘x’

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

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

one of marks (see Стиль линий) or kind of error boxes;

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

style of tape.

‘Y’

dark yellow or gold color (see Цвета).

‘y’

yellow color (see Цвета);

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.