Rows and columns used for display (original) (raw)
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lines
rows and columns used for display
Calling Sequence
lines([nl [,nc]]) ncl=lines()
Arguments
nl : an integer, the number of lines for vertical paging control. If 0
no vertical paging control is done.
nc
an integer, the number of column of output. Used for formatting output
ncl
a 1x2 vector [nc,nl]
Description
lines handles Scilab display paging.
lines() returns the vector [# columns, # rows] currently used by Scilab for displaying the results.
lines(nl) sets the number of displayed lines (before user is asked for more) to nl.
lines(0) disables vertical paging
lines(nl,nc) changes also the size of the output to nc columns.
When Scilab is launched without -nw option, the lines parameters are automatically set according to the output window size, these parameters are also automatically modified when the window is resized.