Language Reference

GSCRIPT Call

writes multiple text strings with special fonts

CALL GSCRIPT( , , text<, angle<, rotate<, height<, font>

           <, color<, window<, viewport>);

The inputs to the GSCRIPT subroutine are as follows:

is a scalar or vector containing the coordinates of the lower left starting position of the text string's first character.

is a scalar or vector containing the coordinates of the lower left starting position of the text string's first character.

text

is a character vector of text strings.

angle

is the slant of each text string.

rotate

is the rotation of individual characters.

height

is a real number specifying the character height.

font

is a character matrix or quoted literal that specifies a valid font name.

color

is a valid SAS color. The color argument can be specified as a quoted text string (such as 'RED'), the name of a character matrix containing a valid color as an element, or a color number (such as 1). A color number refers to the th color in the color list.

window

is a numeric matrix or literal specifying a window. This is given in world coordinates and has the form

{minimum-x minimum-y maximum-x maximum-y}

viewport

is a numeric matrix or literal specifying a viewport. This is given in normalized coordinates and has the form

{minimum-x minimum-y maximum-x maximum-y}

The GSCRIPT subroutine writes multiple text strings with special character fonts. The and vectors describe the coordinates of the lower left starting position of the text string's first character. The color argument can have more than one element.

Note: Hardware characters cannot always be obtained if you change the HEIGHT or ASPECT parameters or if you use a viewport.

The coordinates in use for this graphics command are world coordinates. Examples of valid statements follow:

  
    call gscript(7,y,names); 
    call gscript(50,50,"plot of height vs weight"); 
    call gscript(10,90,"yaxis",-90,90);