Man Scilab

lines - rows and columns used for display

Calling Sequence

lines([nl [,nc]])

ncl=lines()

Parameters

• 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 automaticaly modified when the window is resized.

See Also

disp ,   print ,  

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