Element: graduation.angle

Type

numeric

Description

The angle of a graduation provides the direction of the color fill, e.g. an angle of 0 defines a horizontal fill with vertical striped graduations.

Angles are measured counter clockwise. The measure of the angle (degrees, radians) is governed by the value of the system string angle_mode.

Only linear graduations make use this attribute.

Here is a graduation with an angle of 30 degrees.

The command to created this graduation is as follows:

graduation mygrad,-rgb=<0,100,0, 30,30,30>,-ang=30*degs

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