Yorick

• Basic Ideas
  • Simple Statements
    • Defining a variable
    • Invoking a procedure
    • Printing an expression
  • Flow Control Statements
    • Defining a function
    • Defining Procedures
    • Conditional Execution
      • General if and else constructs
      • Combining conditions with && and ||
    • Loops
      • The while and do while statements
      • The for statement
      • Using break, continue, and goto
    • Variable scope
      • extern statements
      • local statements
  • The Interpreted Environment
    • Starting, stopping, and interrupting Yorick
    • Include files
      • A sample include file
      • Comments
      • DOCUMENT comments
      • Where Yorick looks for include files
      • The `custom.i' file
    • The help function
    • The info function
    • Prompts
    • Shell commands, removing and renaming files
    • Error Messages
      • Runtime errors
      • How to respond to a runtime error
• Using Array Syntax
  • Creating Arrays
  • Interpolating
  • Indexing
    • Scalar indices and array order
    • Selecting a range of indices
    • Nil index refers to an entire dimension
    • Selecting an arbitrary list of indices
    • Creating a pseudo-index
    • Numbering a dimension from its last element
    • Using a rubber index
    • Marking an index for matrix multiplication
    • Rank reducing (statistical) range functions
    • Rank preserving (finite difference) range functions
  • Sorting
  • Transposing
  • Broadcasting and conformability
  • Dimension Lists
• Graphics
  • Primitive plotting functions
    • plg
    • pldj
    • plm
    • plc
    • plf
    • pli
    • plfp
    • plv
    • plt
  • Plot limits and relatives
    • limits
      • Zooming with the mouse
      • Saving plot limits
      • Forcing square limits
    • logxy
    • gridxy
    • palette
    • Color model
  • Managing a display list
    • fma and redraw
    • Multiple graphics windows
  • Getting hardcopy
    • Color hardcopy
    • Binary CGM caveats
    • Encapsulated PostScript
  • Graphics style
    • Style keyword
    • `style.i' functions
    • Coordinate systems
    • Ticks and labels
  • Queries, edits, and legends
    • Legends
    • plq and pledit
  • Defaults for keywords
  • Writing new plotting functions
  • Animation
  • 3D graphics interfaces
    • Coordinate mapping
    • Lighting
    • gnomon
    • plwf interface
    • slice3 interface
• Embedding Compiled Routines Inside Yorick
• Concept Index

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