12-14-2011
Again, i've confussed things, sorry. The padding of the 2nd column is based on a defined scalar variable, like so;
Code;
m=6
printf "%s %-${m}g %s\n" 'text' 'martin' 'text'
printf "%s %-${m}g %s\n" 'text' 'ian' 'text'
Output;
text martin text
text Ian___text (underscores represent spaces)
I know the above code is wrong but wrote it to give an idea of what i'm trying to achieve.
Regards
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PLTEXT(3plplot) PLplot API PLTEXT(3plplot)
NAME
pltext - Switch to text screen
SYNOPSIS
pltext()
DESCRIPTION
Sets an interactive device to text mode, used in conjunction with plgra(3plplot) to allow graphics and text to be interspersed. On a
device which supports separate text and graphics windows, this command causes control to be switched to the text window. This can be use-
ful for printing diagnostic messages or getting user input, which would otherwise interfere with the plots. The program must switch back
to the graphics window before issuing plot commands, as the text (or console) device will probably become quite confused otherwise. If
already in text mode, this command is ignored. It is also ignored on devices which only support a single window or use a different method
for shifting focus (see also plgra(3plplot)).
Redacted form: pltext()
This function is used in example 1.
AUTHORS
Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the
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SEE ALSO
PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.
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