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Allows the script programmer to make certain overall settings.
Many scripts will not need to use this proc;
it may be useful to set a default date or number display notation,
to set overall date processing behavior attributes, or to set certain
system resource attributes.
proc settings may be used more than once per script if desired.
The settings take effect immediately.
Many (but not all) of these settings can be also made using a
config file
, and some can be made on the
pl command line.
Presidence (from highest to lowest) is: proc settings, command line, config file.
Note: this proc was previously called proc datesettings.
It has been renamed because its functionality has been expanded.
For backward compatibility, the dateformat attribute
may be addressed using its old name: format.
EXAMPLES
See the gallery example
settingsdemo
ATTRIBUTES
units: in | cm
-
-
The measurement unit to be used for absolute units, either inches or centimeters.
Default is in.
If this is set in the config file, it will be in effect when command line
arguments are evaluated. If set in proc settings, it will not have any
effect on command line argument evaluation.
Example: units: cm
numbernotation: standard | us | euro
-
-
Specifies how decimal point and thousands separators will be displayed.
Default is standard.
The following table illustrates:
standard us euro
---------- ------------ -------------
79 79 79
79.5 79.5 79,5
4321.79 4321.79 4321,79
54321 54,321 54.321
654321.07 654,321.07 654.321,07
1987654321 1,987,654,321 1.987.654.321
numberspacerthreshold: n
-
-
Specifies at what numeric magnitude thousands separators will begin to be inserted.
Default is 4, and this is used in the above table. If it were set to 3, the third entry
in the above table would appear like this:
4321.79 4,321.79 4.321,79
font fontname
-
-
Make fontname the default font.
For more information see
fonts.
SVG / XML SETTINGS
-
-
Use no to suppress the XML declaration line if
the SVG result is to be embedded into a larger XML document.
command line argument.
-
-
This may be used to set the XML character encoding method.
The default is iso-8859-1 which provides Latin and Western European character sets.
For Unicode fonts this should be set to utf-8 (for more discussion see the Unicode section in
fonts
).
command line argument.
SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
cpulimit:
-
-
Number of seconds of CPU time that will be allowed to the pl process
or any spawned subprocesses. Default is 10 seconds.
Any process exceeding this will abort.
filesizelimit: [DISCONTINUED]
-
-
This attribute no longer does anything. It turned out to be more of a problem than a benefit.
DATE-RELATED
dateformat: format
-
-
Set the current date format.
format must be a
date format from the
dates manual page
that includes month, day, and year, for which arithmetic is supported.
To use other arithmetic date formats (such as quarter notation)
specify the format in the
proc areadef
xscaletype or yscaletype attribute.
Example: dateformat: dd-mmm-yyyy
omitweekends omit | adjust | yes | no
-
-
Allows date plotting as if
Saturdays and Sundays did not exist.
Mondays will follow Fridays directly.
Useful in certain business and work-related plots.
If omit, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be considered invalid and omitted;
however they will not be reported unless the -showbad command line option is used.
If adjust or yes, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be silently adjusted
to the nearest weekday.
pivotyear: yy
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-
Set the two digit year that should be used to convert
two-digit years to four-digit years. If two-digit years are
used, year values that are less than the pivot year are assumed
to be 21st century years. Default is 77.
Example: pivotyear: 50
months: list
-
-
Specify the three-character month abbreviations to be used, all in lower case,
beginning with the first month.
Default is the English (jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec).
Example (Spanish) (must all be on one line):
months: ene feb mar abr pue jun jul ago sep oct nov dic
months.abbrev: list
-
-
short month names, capitalized for presentation, begining with the first month.
Default is English (Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec).
Example (Spanish) (must all be on one line):
months.abbrev: Ene Feb Mar Abr Pue Jun Jul Ago Sep Oct Nov Dic
months.full: list
-
-
full month names, capitalized for presentation.
Example (Spanish) (must all be on one line):
months.full: Enero Febrero Marcha Abril Pueda Junio Julio Agosto Septiembre Octubre Noviembre Diciembre
weekdays: list
-
-
three-character weekday abbreviations, capitalized for presentation,
beginning with Sunday.
Example (French): weekdays: Dim Lun Mar Mer Jeu Ven Sam
Example (Spanish): weekdays: Dom Lun Mar Mie Jue Vie Sab
lazydates month|day|both
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-
Allow handling of dates where the day component
or the month component is not known. See
dates
for further discussion of lazy dates.
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