ASCII control characters

» aiSee understands the following control characters

   \n    new line
   \t    tab
   \a    alert
   \b    backspace
   \fu   start underlining
   \fI   start italics
   \fb   start bold
   \fB   start very bold
   \fn   return to normal typeface

Colors and special characters

» A color change is initiated by

   \fcolor_number  // 2 digits

» A special character is specified by

   \ficharacter_number  // 3 digits

» For the character numbers of the ISO Latin 1 Set, see

• aiSee User Manual: ASCII Character Set
• charset.gdl example file, which is part of the aiSee evaluation package

Example (see slide)

   graph: { color: 15

   node: { title: "blue"  bordercolor: 8
           label: "\f08 two lines\nin darkblue" }
   node: { title: "red"   bordercolor: 9
           label: "\f09darkred text\n\fIitalic\fb+bold" }

   edge: { source: "blue"  target: "red"
           arrowstyle: line  color: darkblue  arrowcolor: 9 }

          }

Hint

» ASCII control characters also work for

• Edge labels
• Node information windows

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Last modified on 13 November 2002 by webmaster. © 2002 AbsInt.
URL: http://www.aisee.com/gdl/nutshell/ascii.htm

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