Customizing Tools

Customizing Markers & Unicode Glyphs

Unicode Support

Aabel supports Unicode both in the worksheet and the graphic viewer, while basing any ranking of categorical data on the US English writing system to ensure consistency in statistical outputs independent of the machine language settings.

Markers and Data Representation

Markers are used to represent data in many chart types, and provide graphical information regarding the plotted data.

The uniqueness of markers are defined by their symbols, color, and size. Aabel provides many built-in markers, as well as the ability to load and use any Unicode character/symbol/glyph from the System Character palette.

Aabel Markers

  • Aabel provides 175 marker symbols, each of which can be scaled from 50 to 200% of the initial size (100%) in 20 steps.
  • The Aabel marker palette also has a blank "symbol" to allow removing markers from a graph, for example, to compare regression curves without displaying data points.

Unicode Characters/Symbols/Glyphs

  • The Unicode palette can hold 176 characters/symbols/glyphs, each of which can be scaled from 50 to 200% of the initial size (100%) in 20 steps.
  • This palette can be customized, i.e., each item of the palette can be replaced by another Unicode character/symbol/glyph from the System character palette.