NAME

       PDL::Graphics::PGPLOTOptions - Setting PGPLOT options

SYNOPSIS

       use PGPLOTOptions qw('default_options');

DESCRIPTION

       This package contains one function (at present) which returns PDL::Option objects for
       default settings for plot windows and plot commands. This should be complemented by
       functions that could affect this such as file reading commands etc.

OPTIONS

       The following is a listing of options that are set in this file and what they do and what
       their default value is

   Window specific options
       These options modify the appearance of windows and can also modify the default settings
       for creation of plot axes etc.

       Device
           The default PGPLOT device to use. The default value is set to the PGPLOT_DEV
           environment variable if set, otherwise to '?'.

       AxisColour
           The colour with which to draw axes. Default value=3 (Green)

       HardLW, HardCH, HardFont, HardAxisColour, HardColour
           The linewidth, character height, font and axis colour to use on hardcopy devices. The
           default values are HardLW=1, HardCH=1.4, HardFont=2 (Roman), HardAxisColour=1 (Black)
           and HardColour=1 as well. The latter is the default plot colour to use on hardcopy
           devices.

       Axis
           The axis style to use. See the PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window documentation for
           details. It defaults to 'Normal' which is a labelled box. Valid arguments are 'Empty',
           'Box', 'Normal', 'Axes', 'Grid', 'LogX', 'LogY', 'LogXY'.

       AspectRatio
           The aspect ratio of the output device. The default value is device dependent.

       WindowWidth
           The width of the output window in inches and defaults to as big as possible.

       WindowXSize and WindowYSize
           These are alternatives to AspectRatio and WindowWidth.

       WindowName
           The name of the window - can later be retrieved using name(). It defaults to
           'Window'+Window ID.

       NXPanel
           The number of panels in the X-direction - defaults to 1

       NYPanel
           The number of panels in the Y-direction - defaults to 1

       Justify
           A boolean value which, if true, causes both axes to drawn to the same scale; see the
           PGPLOT "pgenv()" command for more information.

       TightLabels
           Boolean value which, if true, causes axis labels to be pulled slightly closer to the
           main viewport than usual.  That's handy for making multi-panel plots.  Undef (the
           default) is equivalent to 0 for panels with NYPanels <= 1 and 1 for panels with
           NYPanels > 1.

       TitleSize
           The relative size of a plot or image title, compared to other annotations.  Defaults
           to 1.0 (original behavior) but can be set to, e.g., 1.5 to emphasize graph titles in a
           multipanel plot.

       Border
           Adjust the spacing around the plot. See the documentation in
           PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window for details.

       CharSize
           The default charsize for the plot - used when annotating the axes for instance. It
           defaults to 1.

       PlotPosition
           The position of the plot in normalised coordinates.

       Erase
           Explicitly erase the plotting surface, normally required when making new plots with
           PlotPosition.

   Plot specific options
       For the moment see the "PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window" documentation for these.

   set_pgplot_options
       This function allows the user to set the default PGPLOT options. It is particularly useful
       in the ".perldlrc" file since one can do

         use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOTOptions ('set_pgplot_options');
         set_pgplot_options('Device' => '/xs', 'HardLW' => 3);

       for instance to set the default values. The main drawback is that the routine is rather
       unflexible with no synonyms or case-insensitivity.