AIPS HELP file for PLCOLORS in 31DEC09

As of Sun Nov 22 17:21:51 2009

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PLCOLORS
Type:     Adverb   (Array (3,10))
Use:      Plot programs draw lines and symbols of different
          categories.  They are also able to draw "dark" as well as
          "bright" versions of these line/symbol categories.  The dark
          ones are normally drawn to provide contrast when the
          background grey-scale image is strong.  DOCOLOR is used to
          control whether PLCOLORS is used or ignored.  The first axis
          is red-green-blue in that order, while the second is used to
          select line type (or something else).

          The line types are:
          Bright
            1  Border lines, tick marks, internal character labels
            2  Contours, model lines
            3  Polarization vectors
            4  Stars (incl labels), symbols
          Dark
            5  internal character labels
            6  Contours, model lines
            7  Polarization vectors
            8  Stars (incl labels), symbols
          Other
            9  Character labels outside the plot area
           10  Overall background
          LWPLA defaults (when DOCOLOR=-1; _NOT_ when DOCOLOR=1,
          PLCOLORS=0), when the image is not in color, PLCOLORS
          or 1-4 and 9 to 0.0 and 5-8 and 10 to 1.0.  When the
          "grey-scale" image is colored, the defaults change to
          1-5 and 10 to 1.0 and 6-9 to 0.0.

          The default line type is 1 and most tasks still use only
          that.

          This adverb is ideal to use with the tilda(~) continuation
          command.
             Example:  Say you want to make an image with white
                       bright contours, red dark contours, yellow
                       bright polarization vectors, and pink character
                       labels on a dark green background, then you
                       should type:
                          > plcolors(1,2)~ 1 1 1
                          > plcolors(1,6)~ 1 0 0
                          > plcolors(1,3)~ 1 1 0
                          > plcolors(1,9)~ 1 0.3 0.5
                          > plcolors(1,10)~ 0.1 0.5 0.1

Tasks:
  LWPLA.......Convert a plot file to PostScript for saving and/or
              printing.  When DOCOLOR is > 0, the PLCOLORS adverb
              controls the coloring of the 4 bright and 4 dark line
              types plus the external characters and the overall
              background.

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