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<h1 align="center">PSTEXT</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br>
<a href="#WINDOWS REMARKS">WINDOWS REMARKS</a><br>
<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
<a name="NAME"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">pstext −
To plot text strings on maps</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>pstext</b>
<i>textfile</i> <b>−J</b><i>parameters</i>
<b>−R</b><i>west</i>/<i>east</i>/<i>south</i>/<i>north</i>[<b>r</b>]
[ <b>−A</b> ] [
<b>−B</b>[<b>p</b>|<b>s</b>]<i>parameters</i> ] [
<b>−C</b><i>dx/dy</i> ] [
<b>−D</b>[<b>j</b>]<i>dx</i>[/<i>dy</i>][<b>v</b>[<i>pen</i>]
] [
<b>−E</b><i>azim</i>/<i>elev</i>[<b>+w</b><i>lon</i>/<i>lat</i>[/<i>z</i>]][<b>+v</b><i>x0</i>/<i>y0</i>]
] [ <b>−G</b><i>color</i> ] [
<b>−H</b>[<b>i</b>][<i>nrec</i>] ] [
<b>−Jz</b>|<b>Z</b><i>parameters</i> ] [
<b>−K</b> ] [ <b>−L</b> ] [ <b>−N</b> ] [
<b>−O</b> ] [ <b>−P</b> ] [
<b>−S</b><i>pen</i> ] [
<b>−U</b>[<i>just</i>/<i>dx</i>/<i>dy</i>/][<b>c</b>|<i>label</i>]
] [ <b>−V</b> ] [
<b>−W</b>[<i>color</i>,][<b>o</b>|<b>O</b>|<b>c</b>|<b>C</b>[<i>pen</i>]]
] [
<b>−X</b>[<b>a</b>|<b>c</b>|<b>r</b>][<i>x-shift</i>[<b>u</b>]]
] [
<b>−Y</b>[<b>a</b>|<b>c</b>|<b>r</b>][<i>y-shift</i>[<b>u</b>]]
] [ <b>−Z</b>[<i>zlevel</i>|<b>+</b>] ] [
<b>−:</b>[<b>i</b>|<b>o</b>] ] [
<b>−c</b><i>copies</i> ] [
<b>−f</b>[<b>i</b>|<b>o</b>]<i>colinfo</i> ] [
<b>−m</b>[<i>flag</i>] ]</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>pstext</b>
plots text strings of variable size, font type, and
orientation. Various map projections are provided, with the
option to draw and annotate the map boundaries.
<i>PostScript</i> code is written to standard output. Greek
characters, subscript, superscript, and small caps are
supported as follows: The sequence @~ toggles between the
selected font and Greek (Symbol). @%<i>no</i>% sets the font
to <i>no</i>; @%% resets the font to the starting font, @-
toggles subscripts on/off, @+ toggles superscript on/off, @#
toggles small caps on/off, @;<i>color</i>; changes the font
color (@;; resets it), @:<i>size</i>: changes the font size
(@:: resets it), and @_ toggles underline on/off. @@ prints
the @ sign. @e, @o, @a, @E, @O, @A give the accented
Scandinavian characters. Composite characters (overstrike)
may be indicated with the @!<char1><char2>
sequence, which will print the two characters on top of each
other. To learn the octal codes for symbols not available on
the keyboard and some accented European characters, see
Section 4.16 and Appendix F in the <b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> Technical
Reference and Cookbook. Note that <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#CHAR_ENCODING">CHAR_ENCODING</A></b> must
be set to an extended character set in your .gmtdefaults4
file in order to use the accented characters. Using the
<b>−W</b> option, a colored rectangle underlying the
text may be plotted (Does not work for strings with
sub/super scripts, symbols, or composite characters, except
in paragraph mode (<b>−m</b>)). <i><br>
textfile</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">This file contains 1 or more
records with (<i>x, y, size, angle, fontno, justify,
text</i>). If no file is given, <b>pstext</b> will read
standard input. <i>size</i> is text size in points,
<i>angle</i> is measured in degrees counter-clockwise from
horizontal, <i>fontno</i> sets the font type, <i>justify</i>
sets the alignment. If <i>fontno</i> is not an integer, then
it is taken to be a text string with the desired fontname.
See the <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html">gmtdefaults</A></b> man page for names and numbers of
available fonts (or run <b>pstext −L</b>). The
alignment refers to the part of the text string that will be
mapped onto the (<i>x,y</i>) point. Choose a 2 character
combination of L, C, R (for left, center, or right) and T,
M, B for top, middle, or bottom. e.g., BL for lower
left.</p>
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<p><b>−J</b></p></td>
<td width="8%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Selects the map projection. Scale is UNIT/degree,
1:xxxxx, or width in UNIT (upper case modifier). UNIT is cm,
inch, or m, depending on the <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#MEASURE_UNIT">MEASURE_UNIT</A></b> setting in
.gmtdefaults4, but this can be overridden on the command
line by appending <b>c</b>, <b>i</b>, or <b>m</b> to the
scale/width value. When central meridian is optional,
default is center of longitude range on <b>−R</b>
option. Default standard parallel is the equator. For map
height, max dimension, or min dimension, append <b>h</b>,
<b>+</b>, or <b>-</b> to the width, respectively.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="margin-left:22%;">More details can be found in
the <b><A HREF="psbasemap.html">psbasemap</A></b> man pages.</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>CYLINDRICAL
PROJECTIONS:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−Jc</b><i>lon0/lat0/scale</i>
(Cassini) <b><br>
−Jcyl_stere</b>/[<i>lon0/</i>[<i>lat0/</i>]]<i>scale</i>
(Cylindrical Stereographic) <b><br>
−Jj</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Miller) <b><br>
−Jm</b>[<i>lon0</i>/[<i>lat0/</i>]]<i>scale</i>
(Mercator) <b><br>
−Jm</b><i>lon0/lat0/scale</i> (Mercator - Give
meridian and standard parallel) <b><br>
−Jo</b>[<b>a</b>]<i>lon0/lat0/azimuth/scale</i>
(Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) <b><br>
−Jo</b>[<b>b</b>]<i>lon0/lat0/lon1/lat1/scale</i>
(Oblique Mercator - two points) <b><br>
−Joc</b><i>lon0/lat0/lonp/latp/scale</i> (Oblique
Mercator - point and pole) <b><br>
−Jq</b>[<i>lon0/</i>[<i>lat0/</i>]]<i>scale</i>
(Cylindrical Equidistant) <b><br>
−Jt</b><i>lon0/</i>[<i>lat0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (TM -
Transverse Mercator) <b><br>
−Ju</b><i>zone/scale</i> (UTM - Universal Transverse
Mercator) <b><br>
−Jy</b>[<i>lon0/</i>[<i>lat0/</i>]]<i>scale</i>
(Cylindrical Equal-Area)</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>CONIC
PROJECTIONS:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−Jb</b><i>lon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale</i>
(Albers) <b><br>
−Jd</b><i>lon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale</i> (Conic
Equidistant) <b><br>
−Jl</b><i>lon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale</i> (Lambert Conic
Conformal) <b><br>
−Jpoly</b>/[<i>lon0/</i>[<i>lat0/</i>]]<i>scale</i>
((American) Polyconic)</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>AZIMUTHAL
PROJECTIONS:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−Ja</b><i>lon0/lat0</i>[<i>/horizon</i>]<i>/scale</i>
(Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area) <b><br>
−Je</b><i>lon0/lat0</i>[<i>/horizon</i>]<i>/scale</i>
(Azimuthal Equidistant) <b><br>
−Jf</b><i>lon0/lat0</i>[<i>/horizon</i>]<i>/scale</i>
(Gnomonic) <b><br>
−Jg</b><i>lon0/lat0</i>[<i>/horizon</i>]<i>/scale</i>
(Orthographic) <b><br>
−Jg</b><i>lon0/lat0/altitude/azimuth/tilt/twist/Width/Height/scale</i>
(General Perspective). <b><br>
−Js</b><i>lon0/lat0</i>[<i>/horizon</i>]<i>/scale</i>
(General Stereographic)</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>MISCELLANEOUS
PROJECTIONS:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−Jh</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i>
(Hammer) <b><br>
−Ji</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Sinusoidal) <b><br>
−Jkf</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Eckert IV) <b><br>
−Jk</b>[<b>s</b>][<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Eckert
VI) <b><br>
−Jn</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Robinson) <b><br>
−Jr</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Winkel Tripel)
<b><br>
−Jv</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Van der Grinten)
<b><br>
−Jw</b>[<i>lon0/</i>]<i>scale</i> (Mollweide)</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>NON-GEOGRAPHICAL
PROJECTIONS:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>−Jp</b>[<b>a</b>]<i>scale</i>[<i>/origin</i>][<b>r</b>|<b>z</b>]
(Polar coordinates (theta,r)) <b><br>
−Jx</b><i>x-scale</i>[<b>d</b>|<b>l</b>|<b>p</b><i>pow</i>|<b>t</b>|<b>T</b>][<i>/y-scale</i>[<b>d</b>|<b>l</b>|<b>p</b><i>pow</i>|<b>t</b>|<b>T</b>]]
(Linear, log, and power scaling)</p>
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<td width="4%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em"><b>−Jz</b></p></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em">Sets the vertical scaling (for
3-D maps). Same syntax as <b>−Jx</b>.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="4%">
<p><b>−R</b></p></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p><i>xmin</i>, <i>xmax</i>, <i>ymin</i>, and <i>ymax</i>
specify the Region of interest. For geographic regions,
these limits correspond to <i>west, east, south,</i> and
<i>north</i> and you may specify them in decimal degrees or
in [+-]dd:mm[:ss.xxx][W|E|S|N] format. Append <b>r</b> if
lower left and upper right map coordinates are given instead
of w/e/s/n. The two shorthands <b>−Rg</b> and
<b>−Rd</b> stand for global domain (0/360 and
-180/+180 in longitude respectively, with -90/+90 in
latitude). Alternatively, specify the name of an existing
grid file and the <b>−R</b> settings (and grid
spacing, if applicable) are copied from the grid. For
calendar time coordinates you may either give (a) relative
time (relative to the selected <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#TIME_EPOCH">TIME_EPOCH</A></b> and in the
selected <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#TIME_UNIT">TIME_UNIT</A></b>; append <b>t</b> to
<b>−JX</b>|<b>x</b>), or (b) absolute time of the form
[<i>date</i>]<b>T</b>[<i>clock</i>] (append <b>T</b> to
<b>−JX</b>|<b>x</b>). At least one of <i>date</i> and
<i>clock</i> must be present; the <b>T</b> is always
required. The <i>date</i> string must be of the form
[-]yyyy[-mm[-dd]] (Gregorian calendar) or yyyy[-Www[-d]]
(ISO week calendar), while the <i>clock</i> string must be
of the form hh:mm:ss[.xxx]. The use of delimiters and their
type and positions must be exactly as indicated (however,
input, output and plot formats are customizable; see
<b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html">gmtdefaults</A></b>).</p> </td></tr>
</table>
<h2>OPTIONS
<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">No space
between the option flag and the associated arguments.</p>
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<td width="7%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em"><b>−A</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em">Angles are given as azimuths;
convert them to directions using the current projection.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−B</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Sets map boundary annotation and tickmark intervals; see
the <b><A HREF="psbasemap.html">psbasemap</A></b> man page for all the details.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−C</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Sets the clearance between the text and the surrounding
box [15%]. Only used if <b>−W</b> is specified. Append
the unit you want (<b>c</b>m, <b>i</b>nch, <b>m</b>eter. or
<b>p</b>oint; if not given we consult <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#MEASURE_UNIT">MEASURE_UNIT</A></b>)
or % for a percentage of the font size.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−D</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Offsets the text from the projected (<i>x,y</i>) point
by <i>dx,dy</i> [0/0]. If <i>dy</i> is not specified then it
is set equal to <i>dx</i>. Use <b>-Dj</b> to offset the text
away from the point instead (i.e., the text’s
justification will determine the direction of the shift).
Optionally, append <b>v</b> which will draw a line from the
original point to the shifted point; append a <i>pen</i> to
change the attributes for this line. (See SPECIFYING PENS
below).</p> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−E</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Sets the viewpoint’s azimuth and elevation (for
perspective view) [180/90]. For frames used for animation,
you may want to append <b>+</b> to fix the center of your
data domain (or specify a particular world coordinate point
with <b>+w</b><i>lon0</i>/<i>lat</i>[/<i>z</i>]) which will
project to the center of your page size (or specify the
coordinates of the projected view point with
<b>+v</b><i>x0</i>/<i>y0). (Not implemented for paragraph
mode).</i></p> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−G</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Sets the shade or color used for drawing the text
[Default is BASEMAP_FRAME_RGB, the current frame color (by
default black)] (See SPECIFYING COLOR below).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−H</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Input file(s) has header record(s). If used, the default
number of header records is <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#N_HEADER_RECS">N_HEADER_RECS</A></b>. Use
<b>−Hi</b> if only input data should have header
records [Default will write out header records if the input
data have them]. Blank lines and lines starting with # are
always skipped.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−K</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>More <i>PostScript</i> code will be appended later
[Default terminates the plot system].</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−L</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Lists the font-numbers and font-names available, then
exits.</p> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−N</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Do NOT clip text at map boundaries [Default will
clip].</p> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−O</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Selects Overlay plot mode [Default initializes a new
plot system].</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−P</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Selects Portrait plotting mode [Default is Landscape,
see <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html">gmtdefaults</A></b> to change this].</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−S</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Draw text outline. Append pen attributes. (Not
implemented for paragraph mode).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−U</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Draw Unix System time stamp on plot. By adding
<i>just/dx/dy/</i>, the user may specify the justification
of the stamp and where the stamp should fall on the page
relative to lower left corner of the plot. For example,
BL/0/0 will align the lower left corner of the time stamp
with the lower left corner of the plot. Optionally, append a
<i>label</i>, or <b>c</b> (which will plot the command
string.). The <b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> parameters <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#UNIX_TIME">UNIX_TIME</A></b>,
<b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#UNIX_TIME_POS">UNIX_TIME_POS</A></b>, and <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#UNIX_TIME_FORMAT">UNIX_TIME_FORMAT</A></b> can affect
the appearance; see the <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html">gmtdefaults</A></b> man page for
details. The time string will be in the locale set by the
environment variable <b>TZ</b> (generally local time).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−V</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports
to stderr [Default runs "silently"].</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−W</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Paint a rectangle beneath the text string. Set color
[Default is no fill]. Append <b>o</b> to draw rectangle
outline, add a <i>pen</i> to specify pen attributes [width =
1, color = black, texture = solid]. use a comma to separate
the fill information from the outline information if both
are present. Choose upper case <b>O</b> to get a rounded
rectangle. Choose lower case <b>c</b> to get a concave
rectangle (only in paragraph mode). Choose upper case
<b>C</b> to get a convex rectangle (only in paragraph mode).
(See also SPECIFYING PENS and SPECIFYING COLOR below).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−X −Y</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Shift plot origin relative to the current origin by
(<i>x-shift,y-shift</i>) and optionally append the length
unit (<b>c</b>, <b>i</b>, <b>m</b>, <b>p</b>). You can
prepend <b>a</b> to shift the origin back to the original
position after plotting, or prepend <b>r</b> [Default] to
reset the current origin to the new location. If
<b>−O</b> is used then the default
(<i>x-shift,y-shift</i>) is (0,0), otherwise it is (r1i,
r1i) or (r2.5c, r2.5c). Alternatively, give <b>c</b> to
align the center coordinate (x or y) of the plot with the
center of the page based on current page size.</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−Z</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>For 3-D projections: Sets the z-level of the basemap
[Default is the bottom of the z-axis]. If <b>−Z+</b>
is given we expect each item to have its own level given in
the 3rd column, and <b>−N</b> is implicitly set. (Not
implemented for paragraph mode).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−:</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Toggles between (longitude,latitude) and
(latitude,longitude) input and/or output. [Default is
(longitude,latitude)]. Append <b>i</b> to select input only
or <b>o</b> to select output only. [Default affects
both].</p> </td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−c</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Specifies the number of plot copies. [Default is 1].</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−f</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Special formatting of input and/or output columns (time
or geographical data). Specify <b>i</b> or <b>o</b> to make
this apply only to input or output [Default applies to
both]. Give one or more columns (or column ranges) separated
by commas. Append <b>T</b> (absolute calendar time),
<b>t</b> (relative time in chosen <b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#TIME_UNIT">TIME_UNIT</A></b> since
<b><A HREF="gmtdefaults.html#TIME_EPOCH">TIME_EPOCH</A></b>), <b>x</b> (longitude), <b>y</b>
(latitude), or <b>f</b> (floating point) to each column or
column range item. Shorthand
<b>−f</b>[<b>i</b>|<b>o</b>]<b>g</b> means
<b>−f</b>[<b>i</b>|<b>o</b>]0<b>x</b>,1<b>y</b>
(geographic coordinates).</p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p><b>−m</b></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p>Paragraph mode. Files must be multiple segment files.
Segments are separated by a special record whose first
character must be <i>flag</i> [Default is
’>’]. Starting in the 3rd column, we expect
to find information pertaining to the typesetting of a text
paragraph (the remaining lines until next segment header).
The information expected is (x y size angle fontno justify
linespace parwidth parjust), where <i>x y size angle fontno
justify</i> are defined above, while <i>linespace</i> and
<i>parwidth</i> are the linespacing and paragraph width,
respectively. The justification of the text paragraph is
governed by <i>parjust</i> which may be <b>l</b>(eft),
<b>c</b>(enter), <b>r</b>(ight), or <b>j</b>(ustified). The
segment header is followed by one or more lines with
paragraph text. Text may contain the escape sequences
discussed above. Separate paragraphs with a blank line.</p></td></tr>
</table>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>SPECIFYING
PENS</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="4%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em"><i>pen</i></p></td>
<td width="7%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em">The attributes of lines and
symbol outlines as defined by <i>pen</i> is a comma
delimetered list of <i>width</i>, <i>color</i> and
<i>texture</i>, each of which is optional. <i>width</i> can
be indicated as a measure (points, centimeters, inches) or
as <b>faint</b>, <b>thin</b>[<b>ner</b>|<b>nest</b>],
<b>thick</b>[<b>er</b>|<b>est</b>],
<b>fat</b>[<b>ter</b>|<b>test</b>], or <b>obese</b>.
<i>color</i> specifies a gray shade or color (see SPECIFYING
COLOR below). <i>texture</i> is a combination of dashes
‘-’ and dots ‘.’.</p></td></tr>
</table>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>SPECIFYING
COLOR</b></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="11%"></td>
<td width="7%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em"><i>color</i></p></td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="78%">
<p style="margin-top: 1em">The <i>color</i> of lines, areas
and patterns can be specified by a valid color name; by a
gray shade (in the range 0−255); by a decimal color
code (r/g/b, each in range 0−255; h-s-v, ranges
0−360, 0−1, 0−1; or c/m/y/k, each in range
0−1); or by a hexadecimal color code (#rrggbb, as used
in HTML). See the <b><A HREF="gmtcolors.html">gmtcolors</A></b> manpage for more
information and a full list of color names.</p></td></tr>
</table>
<h2>EXAMPLES
<a name="EXAMPLES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">To plot the
outlines of the text strings stored in the file text.d on a
Mercator plot with the given specifications, use</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>pstext</b>
text.d <b>−R</b>-30/30/-10/20 <b>−Jm</b> 0.1<b>i
−P −B</b> 5 <b>−S</b> 0.5<b>p</b> >
plot.ps</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">To add a
typeset figure caption for a 3-inch wide illustration,
use</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>pstext
−R</b> 0/3/0/5 <b>−JX</b> 3<b>i −O
−H −m −N</b> << EOF >>
figure.ps <br>
This is an optional header record <br>
> 0 -0.5 12 0 4 LT 13p 3i j <br>
@%5%Figure 1.@%% This illustration shows nothing useful, but
it still needs <br>
a figure caption. Highlighted in @;255/0/0;red@;; you can
see the locations <br>
of cities where it is @_impossible@_ to get any good Thai
food; these are to be avoided. <br>
EOF</p>
<h2>WINDOWS REMARKS
<a name="WINDOWS REMARKS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Note that under
Windows, the percent sign (%) is a variable indicator (like
$ under Unix). To indicate a plain percentage sign in a
batch script you need to repeat it (%%); hence the font
switching mechanism (@%<i>font</i>% and @%%) may require
twice the number of percent signs. This only applies to text
inside a script or that otherwise is processed by DOS. Data
files that are opened and read by <b>pstext</b> do not need
such duplication.</p>
<h2>BUGS
<a name="BUGS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">In paragraph
mode, the presence of composite characters and other escape
sequences may lead to unfortunate word splitting. <br>
The <b>−N</b> option does not adjust the BoundingBox
information so you may have to post-process the
<i>PostScript</i> output with epstool or ps2epsi to obtain a
correct BoundingBox.</p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></i>(1),
<i><A HREF="gmtcolors.html">gmtcolors</A></i>(5), <i><A HREF="psbasemap.html">psbasemap</A></i>(1),
<i><A HREF="pslegend.html">pslegend</A></i>(1), <i><A HREF="psxy.html">psxy</A></i>(1)</p>
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