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Appendix A: Fonts, Strings, and Symbols

The libplot vector graphics library and applications built on it, such as graph and plot, can draw text strings in a wide variety of fonts. Text strings may include characters from more than one font in a typeface, and may include superscripts, subscripts, and square roots. A wide variety of plotting symbols can also be drawn. The following sections explain how to use these features.

  • Text Fonts Available text fonts
  • Cyrillic and Japanese The Cyrillic and Japanese fonts
  • Text Fonts in X Available text fonts in the X Window System
  • Text String Format Text string formatting (with escape sequences)
  • Marker Symbols Available marker symbols

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