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The document discusses text and marker attributes in PHIGS programs. Text attributes include font, size, color, orientation and other properties that can be set through functions like setTextFont and setTextColorIndex. Marker attributes include type, size and color that can be set with functions like setMarkerType and setMarkerSizeScaleFactor.

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Unit 1

The document discusses text and marker attributes in PHIGS programs. Text attributes include font, size, color, orientation and other properties that can be set through functions like setTextFont and setTextColorIndex. Marker attributes include type, size and color that can be set with functions like setMarkerType and setMarkerSizeScaleFactor.

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Character Attributes

The appearance of displayed character is


controlled by attributes such as font, size,
color and orientation. Attributes can be set
both for entire character strings (text) and for
individual characters defined as marker
symbols.
Text Attributes
The choice of font or type face is set of characters with
a particular design style as courier, Helvetica, times
roman, and various symbol groups.
The characters in a selected font also be displayed with
styles. (solid, dotted, double) in bold face in italics, and
in outline or shadow styles.
A particular font and associated stvle is selected in a
PHIGS program by setting an integer code for the text
font parameter tf in the function
setTextFont(tf)
Control of text color (or intensity) is managed from an
application program with
setTextColourIndex(tc)
where text color parameter tc specifies an allowable
color code.
Text size can be adjusted without changing the width to
height ratio of characters with
SetCharacterHeight (ch)

Parameter ch is assigned a real value greater than 0 to


set the coordinate height of capital letters
SetCharacterExpansionFactor(cw)

Where the character width parameter cw is set to a


positive real value that scales the body width of character.
The orientation for a displayed character string is set
according to the direction of the character up vector
setCharacterUpVector(upvect)
Parameter upvect in this function is assigned two
values that specify the x and y vector components.
To arrange character strings vertically or horizontally
setTextPath (tp)
Where the text path parameter tp can be assigned the value: right,
left, up, or down Another handy attribute for character strings is
alignment. This attribute specifies how text is to be positioned
with respect to the $tart coordinates. Alignment attributes are set
with
setTextAlignment (h,v)
where parameters h and v control horizontal and vertical
alignment. Horizontal alignment is set by assigning h a value of
left, center, or right. Vertical alignment is set by assigning v a
value of top, cap, half, base or bottom.
A precision specification for text display is given with
setTextPrecision (tpr)
tpr is assigned one of values string, char or stroke.
Marker Attributes
A marker symbol is a single character that can he displayed
in different colors and in different sizes. Marker attributes
are implemented by procedures that load the chosen
character into the raster at the defined positions with the
specified color and size. We select a particular character to
be the marker symbol with
setMarkerType(mt)
where marker type parameter mt is set to an integer code.
Typical codes for marker type are the integers 1 through 5,
specifying, respectively, a dot (.) a vertical cross (+), an
asterisk (*), a circle (o), and a diagonal cross (X).
We set the marker size with
setMarkerSizeScaleFactor(ms)
with parameter marker size ms assigned a positive number.
This scaling parameter is applied to the nominal size for the
particular marker symbol chosen. Values greater than 1
produce character enlargement; values less than 1 reduce
the marker size.
Marker color is specified with
setPolymarkerColourIndex(mc)
A selected color code parameter mc is stored in the current
attribute list and used to display subsequently specified
marker primitives .

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