SUMMARY
Controls the text size attributes.
SYNTAX
TSIZE {size v},{RATIO v},{OLD|NEW}
where size is one of the following:
TINY|SMALL|MEDIUM|LARGE
INPUT
size v: Change the value of one of the text sizes to v. RATIO v: Change the text width to height ratio to v. OLD: Change the values of all the text sizes to their "old" values. These are the values used by SAC prior to Version 9. NEW: Change the values of all the text sizes to their "new" values. These are the default values when SAC is initialized.
DEFAULT VALUES
TSIZE RATIO 1.0 NEW
DESCRIPTION
Most of the text annotation commands (TITLE, XLABEL, FILEID, etc.) allow you to change the size of the text being displayed. You may choose from a set of four named sizes (TINY, SMALL, MEDIUM, and LARGE.) Each named size has an initial value given in the table below. These sizes are the height of a character as a fraction of the full (0.0 to 1.0) viewspace. There are times when you may want some of this annotation to be of a size different from these default values. TSIZE allows you to redefine any or all of these four named sizes. You may also use this command to change the width to height ratio of the characters.
The default text sizes were changed, starting with Version 9 of SAC. The new set covers a wider range and generally looks better on most devices. You can easily change back to the original set of sizes by using the OLD option. This might be useful if you want to create a plot that looks very similar to one that was generated using an older version of SAC. Also old PLOTC files and macros will not look the same when replotted unless you first set the text sizes to their old values. The NEW option resets the sizes to their default values.
DEFAULT TEXT SIZES
NAME A B C D E TINY 0.015 66 50 68 110 SMALL 0.020 50 37 66 82 MEDIUM 0.030 33 25 44 55 LARGE 0.040 25 18 33 41 The column definitions in the table above are as follows:
- A Height of character as a fraction of full viewspace.
- B Number of lines of text in full viewspace.
- C Number of lines of text in a normal viewspace.
- Normal means 0. to 1. in x and 0. to 0.75 in y.
- D Minimum number of characters per normal viewspace line.
- E Average number of characters per normal viewspace line.
- This is larger because the text is proportionally spaced.
EXAMPLES
To change the definition of MEDIUM and then use it to create a specially sized title:
SAC> TSIZE MEDIUM 0.35 SAC> TITLE 'Rayleigh Wave Spectra' SIZE MEDIUM SAC> PLOT2To reset this (and any other) size definitions to their default values:
SAC> TSIZE NEW
LATEST REVISION
July 22, 1991 (Version 9.1)