MMPLOT-SUPPORTED HPGL-INSTRUCTIONS

HP-GL/2 - Instructions

A description can be found in
"HP-GL/2 Reference Guide, A Handbook for Program Developers" by HP,
published by Addison-Wesley 1990.

HP-GL/2 - instructions, not supported by MMPlot are marked with an
asterisk *. HP-GL/2 includes the older HP-GL/1. 

The HP-GL/2 - Kernel

- Configuration and Status Group

 DF = DeFault Values
 IN = Initialize
 IP = InPut P1 and P2
 IR = Input Relative P1 and P2
*IW = Input Window
*PG = advance full PaGe
 RO = ROtate coordinate system  
*RP = Replot

- Vector Group

 AA = Arc Absolute
 AR = Arc Relative
 AT = Arc three point
 CI = Circle
 PA = Plot Absolut
 PD = Pen Down
 PE = Polyline Encoded
 PR = Plot Relative
 PU = Pen Up
 RT = Relative arc Three point

- Polygon Group

 ER = Edge Rectangel relative
 EA = Edge rectangel Absolute
 EW = Edge Wedge
 EP = Edge Polygon
 FP = Fill Polygon
 PM = Polygon Mode
 RA = fill Rectangle Absolute
 RR = fill Rectangle Relative
 WG = fill WedGe

- Line and Fill Attributes Group

*AC = Anchor Corner
 FT = Fill Type            FT,spacing is emulated
*LA = Line Attributes
 LT = Line Type
 PW = Pen Width
*RF = Raster Fill definition
 SM = Symbol Mode
 SP = Select Pen
*UL = User-defined Line Type
*WU = pen Width Unit selection

- Character Group Instructions

*AD = Alternate font Definition
*SD = Standard font Definition
*CF = Character Fill Mode
 CP = Character Plot
 DI = absolute DIrection
*DR = Relative Direction
 DT = Define Label Terminator
*DV = Define Variable text path
*ES = Extra Space
 LB = LaBel
*LO = Label Origin
*SA = Select Alternate font
*SD = Standard font Definition
 SI = absolute Character Size  
*SL = character SLant
 SR = Relative character Size
*SS = Select Standard font
*TD = Transparent Data

- Technical Graphics Extension

 BP = Begin Plot
*CT = Chord Tolerance
*DL = DownLoad character
*EC = Enable Cutter
*FR = FRame advance
*MC = Merge Control
*MG = Message
*MT = Media Type
*NR = Not Ready
*OE = Output ERROR
*OH = Output Hard-clip limits
*OP = Output P1 and p2
*OS = Output Status
 PS = PlotSize
*QL = Quality Level
*ST = SorT
*VS = Velocity Select

- Palette Extension

 CR = Set Color Range for relative color data
 NP = Number of Pens           up to  8 pens/colors
*PC = Pen Color Assignment
*SV = Screened Vectors
 TR = Transparency Mode


- Miscellaneous

   TL = Tick Length
   XT = X-axis Tick
   YT = Y-axis Tick