Configuration

Environment Variables

Some default settings of orto can be configured using the environment variables listed in Table 1.

Note, these options only apply when orto is used through its command line interface (CLI), and in the case of custom fonts, users must have the specified font installed on their system.

Additionally, changing some of the environment variables used for plotting may lead to unsupported and unexpected behaviour - you have been warned!

Variable Name	Description
orto_orca_load	Module load command for orca
orto_termcolor	If set (to any value) enables colour-coded output in windows terminal

The process for setting these variables depends on your platform

Mac and Linux users:

export variablename=VALUE

For example:

export pnmr_plotformat=.png

Windows CMD (Command Prompt) users can set variables temporarily using

set variablename=

while Windows Powershell (PS) users can use

$env:variablename=

these will persist only for the current window. To set Windows environment variables permanently, use the system environment variable window.

Terminal output

Mac and Linux users will see a colour-coded terminal output. By default this is disabled for Windows users since CMD does not support ASCII colour codes. If you are on Windows and are using an ASCII enabled terminal (e.g. Windows Terminal) you can enable colour-coded output by setting the orto_termcolor environment variable to any value in the system environment variable window.