WINDOW
There is usually at least one rectangle drawn on the monitor screen. The
largest rectangle represents the world boundary, the maximum extent of the
hardcopy page. A smaller, inner, rectangle, drawn with a dashed line,
represents a sub-window within the page. These rectangles are for the user's
reference only and will not appear on a hardcopy. These boundary rectangles
can be turned off with the DISABLE BORDER command.
Sub-windows have different plotting unit ranges than the full page. Thus,
when a sub-window has been selected, it is possible that not all subsequent
graphics will be contained within this window. However, commensurateness is
always preserved within a sub-window, for example, circles, which appear as
circles when drawn into the full page, will still be circular when drawn
into any sub-window.
Syntax: WINDOW n { lowx lowy { upx upy }}
Window zero, the full page or world, cannot be modified. A new window can
be defined by including the final four parameters with the command. The
lower left corner will be (lowx,lowy) and the upper right corner will be
(upx,upy). These four parameters should be expressed as percentages of
the world, e.g., lowx = 50, lowy = 50 represents the centre of the world.
If window number n is entered, but not the final four parameters, and
that window number is undefined, then the graphics cursor will be used
to choose the lower left and upper right corners of the new window.
If the \NOMESSAGES qualifier is used, then the values of the window
coordinates will not be displayed.
Choosing a window with the WINDOW command:
WINDOW n lowx,lowy upx,upy
is equivalent to choosing the GPLOT window with the SET command
SET
%XLWIND lowx
%YLWIND lowy
%XUWIND upx
%YUWIND upy
Using the SET command to define a window is not recommended. When the
CLEAR command is entered, the window chosen with the last WINDOW
command is set up, and the values of XLWIND, XUWIND, YLWIND, and
YUWIND are changed. Thus, if their values are re-defined with the SET
command, their new values will be lost when CLEAR is entered.
Syntax: WINDOW\TILE nx ny { nstart }
Default: nstart = 1
The WINDOW\TILE command divides the graphics page up into nx horizontal
by ny vertical windows, giving the first window the number nstart, which
must be > 0. The total number of windows just defined will be nx*ny.