pldefault: Set Default Values

Calling Sequence

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pldefault(key1= value1, key2= value2, ...)

Description

Set default values for the various properties of graphical elements. The keywords can be most of the keywords that can be passed to the plotting commands:

  
plg: color, type, width, marks, mcolor, msize, mspace, 
     mphase, rays, rspace, rphase, arrowl, arroww 
plm: color, type, width 
plc: color, type, width, marks, mcolor, marker, msize, 
     mspace, mphase 
plv: color, hollow, width, aspect 
plf: edges, ecolor, ewidth 
pldj: color, type, width 
plt: color, font, height, path, justify, opaque

The initial default values are:

  
color="fg", type="solid", width= 1.0 (1/ 2 point), 
marks= 1, mcolor="fg", msize= 1.0 (10 points), mspace= 0.16, 
mphase= 0.14, 
rays= 0, arrowl= 1.0 (10 points), arroww= 1.0 (4 points), rspace= 0.13, 
rphase= 0.11375, 
font="helvetica", height= 12.0, path= 0, justify="NN", 
opaque= 0, 
hollow= 0, aspect= 0.125, 
edges= 0, ecolor="fg", ewidth= 1.0 (1/ 2 point)

Additional default keywords are:

  
dpi, style, legends (see window command) 
palette      (to set default filename as in palette command) 
maxcolors    (default 200) 
cgmfilesize  (default 10 MB) in units of MBytes