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font


font <prop>,<value>,..

This command allows to set font attributes for the active frame. The settings can be displayed by entering the command 'font' without parameters or using the command 'show font'. The available font properties <prop> are listed below:

color

font "color",<id>,<icol>

This command allows to alter the colour of the font used to label the graph. The default is black for all fonts. The different types of text given by their <id> parameter are listed below:

  1 : main title line               2: subtitle line
  3 : axis labels                   4: numbers at axis
  5 : text in text frame            6: filename & caption

The allowed colour values <icol> are:

  1 : red         4 : purple
  2 : green       5 : yellow
  3 : blue        6 : black

just

font "just", { "left" | "center" }

This command sets the text justification for the two title lines and the text within a text frame.

size

font "size",<id>,<size>

This command sets the font size for text typ <id> to <size> points. If a specified font size is not available, a fixed font will be used instead. The allowed <id> parameters are:

  1 : main title line               2: subtitle line
  3 : axis labels                   4: numbers at axis
  5 : text in text frame            6: filename & caption

typ

font "typ",<id>,<typ>

This command sets the font of the text typ <id> to <typ>. Allowed values for the text typ parameter <id> are:

  1 : main title line               2: subtitle line
  3 : axis labels                   4: numbers at axis
  5 : text in text frame            6: filename & caption

Currently implemented fonts are:

  1 : Times       5 :  & bold     9 : & italics   13 : & bold+italics
  2 : Courier     6 :  & bold    10 : & italics   14 : & bold+italics
  3 : Symbol      7 :  & bold    11 : & italics   15 : & bold+italics
  4 : Helvetica   8 :  & bold    12 : & italics   16 : & bold+italics


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