Offenberg AstroContrib Library

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List of Routines

• MAKEPUBPLOT Draw plots that were designed using ApJPLOT to the screen (or a PostScript file).
• MAKESYM Call USERSYM to create one of the below plot symbols.
• PLOTDATE This procedure puts the user name, calling program and system time and date in the corner of a plot.
• PREPUBPLOT To catenate a series of vectors (up to ten) into a single array, in a format suitable for using with the routine PubPlot.
• PSPLOT Routine to close and print a postscript plot file. On VMS, will send to the postscript laser printer defined by the logical PSLASER; if this logical is not defined, then the default is UIT$POSTSCRIPT In Uinix, routine will check to see if a printer is defined in the environment variable PSPRINTER. If PSPRINTER is not defined, then default is psuit.
• PUBPLOT[1] Create a graphical interface to the PLOT routine and allow the user to set/unset/reset various PLOTTING keywords. Intended to aid in making slick plots suitable for publications.
• PUBPLOT[2] XX = X axis values YY = Y axis (ordinate) values. Y has N elements or is NxM matrix where N is the number of elements in X. X1...X9 = Optional additional X axis inputs. If they are present, each Xn will be one data set. Y1...Y9 = Optional additional Y axis inputs. If they are present, each