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| • Basics | A tutorial-like introductory chapter. | |
| • Arrays | Using array syntax. | |
| • Graphics | How to plot things. | |
| • Embedding | Embedding compiled code in a custom Yorick. | |
— The Detailed Node Listing — Basic Ideas | ||
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| • Simple Statements | ||
| • Flow control | Defining functions, conditionals, and loops. | |
| • Environment | How to use Yorick’s interpreted environment. | |
Simple Statements | ||
| • Define variable | ||
| • Call procedure | ||
| • Print expression | ||
Flow Control Statements | ||
| • Define function | ||
| • Define procedure | ||
| • Conditionals | Conditionally executing statements. | |
| • Loops | Repeatedly executing statements. | |
| • Scoping | Local and external variables. | |
Conditional Execution | ||
| • if-else constructs | ||
| • logical operators | ||
Loops | ||
| • while and do | ||
| • for | ||
| • goto | How to break, continue, and goto from a loop body. | |
Variable scope | ||
| • extern | ||
| • local | ||
The Interpreted Environment | ||
| • Starting | Starting, stopping, and interrupting Yorick. | |
| • Include | How to read Yorick statements from a file. | |
| • Help | Using the help command. | |
| • Info | Getting information about a variable. | |
| • Prompts | What Yorick prompts mean. | |
| • Shell commands | Issuing shell commands from within Yorick. | |
| • Errors | What to do when Yorick detects an error. | |
Include files | ||
| • Sample include | ||
| • Comments | ||
| • DOCUMENT | The help command recognizes special comments. | |
| • Include path | Directories Yorick searches for include files. | |
| • Customizing | How to execute Yorick statements at startup. | |
Error Messages | ||
| • Runtime errors | ||
| • Simple debugging | ||
Using Array Syntax | ||
| • Creating Arrays | How to originate arrays. | |
| • Interpolating | Interpolation functions. | |
| • Indexing | How to reference array elements. | |
| • Sorting | How to sort an array. | |
| • Transposing | How to change the order of array dimensions. | |
| • Broadcasting | Making arrays conformable. | |
| • Dimension Lists | ||
Indexing | ||
| • Scalar Index | Scalar indices and array order. | |
| • Index Range | Selecting a range of indices. | |
| • Nil Index | Nil index refers to an entire dimension. | |
| • Index List | Selecting an arbitrary list of indices. | |
| • Pseudo-Index | Creating a pseudo-index. | |
| • Negative Index | Numbering a dimension from its last element. | |
| • Rubber-Index | Using a rubber index. | |
| • Matrix Multiply | Marking an index for matrix multiplication. | |
| • Statistical | Rank reducing (statistical) range functions. | |
| • Finite Difference | Rank preserving (finite difference) range functions. | |
Graphics | ||
| • Plotting primitives | The basic drawing functions. | |
| • Plot limits | Setting plot limits, log scaling, etc. | |
| • Display list | The display list model. | |
| • Hardcopy | How to get it. | |
| • Graphics style | How to change it. | |
| • Query and edit | Seeing legends and making minor changes. | |
| • pldefault | Setting (non-default) defaults. | |
| • Custom plot functions | Combining the plotting primitives. | |
| • Animation | Spielberg look out. | |
| • 3D graphics | An experimental interface. | |
Primitive plotting functions | ||
| • plg | Plot graph. | |
| • pldj | Plot disjoint lines. | |
| • plm | Plot quadrilateral mesh. | |
| • plc | Plot contours. | |
| • plf | Plot filled quadrilateral mesh. | |
| • pli | Plot image. | |
| • plfp | Plot filled polygons. | |
| • plv | Plot vectors. | |
| • plt | Plot text. | |
Plot limits and relatives | ||
| • limits | Set plot limits. | |
| • logxy | Set log axis scaling. | |
| • gridxy | Set grid lines. | |
| • palette | Set color palette. | |
| • Color model | More about color. | |
limits | ||
| • mouse zooming | How to zoom by mouse clicks. | |
| • saving limits | Save and restore plot limits. | |
| • square limits | Assure that circles are not ellipses. | |
Managing a display list | ||
| • fma | Frame advance (begin next picture). | |
| • multiple windows | How to get them. | |
Getting hardcopy | ||
| • Color hardcopy | Dumping palettes into hardcopy files. | |
| • CGM hardcopy | Caveats about binary CGM format. | |
| • EPS hardcopy | Encapsulated PostScript output. | |
Graphics style | ||
| • style keyword | Accessing predefined graphics styles. | |
| • style.i | Bypassing predefined graphics styles. | |
| • plsys | Multiple coordinate systems. | |
| • ticks and labels | How to change them. | |
Queries, edits, and legends | ||
| • legends | Setting plot legends. | |
| • plq and pledit | The plot query and edit functions. | |
3D graphics interfaces | ||
| • 3D mapping | Changing your viewpoint. | |
| • 3D lighting | The 3D lighting model. | |
| • 3D gnomon | Gnomon indicates axis orientation. | |
| • plwf | The plot wire frame interface. | |
| • slice3 | The slice and isosurface interface. | |
Embedding | ||
| • Mechanics of embedding | How to use the make utility. | |
| • API for embedding | Using the yapi.h interface. | |
| • Embedding example | Three ways to implement a function. | |
Embedding example | ||
| • Using PROTOTYPE | Example of PROTOTYPE comment. | |
| • Using yapi.h | Example of ‘yapi.h’ API. | |
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