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greg michael writes: > I'd like to have a two line axis title on my plot - I've been playing > with these odd control codes that were mentioned recently, and got this > that almost works, but is too small. I can't up the charsize because > then everything else changes. Maybe there's another ! code to increase > the size? I'm not sure what this means. You want to change the size but YCharsize doesn't work? Sounds fishy to me. :-) Cheers, David -- David Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
David Fanning writes: > Sounds fishy to me. :-) I guess it has to "smell" fishy. But you get the idea. -) Cheers, David -- David Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
David Fanning wrote: > David Fanning writes: > >> Sounds fishy to me. :-) > > I guess it has to "smell" fishy. But you > get the idea. -) Not necessarily... http://tinyurl.com/3o5kq -Rick
Rick Towler writes: > David Fanning wrote: >> David Fanning writes: >> >>> Sounds fishy to me. :-) >> >> I guess it has to "smell" fishy. But you >> get the idea. -) > > Not necessarily... > > http://tinyurl.com/3o5kq Well, I did NOT know that! Now I have a little something to add to the dinner conversation this evening. :-) Cheers, David -- David Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
You may also try: plot,[1,2,1],title='This is a !C two line title',ymargin=[5,5] Ciao, Paolo greg michael wrote: > I'd like to have a two line axis title on my plot - I've been playing > with these odd control codes that were mentioned recently, and got this > that almost works, but is too small. I can't up the charsize because > then everything else changes. Maybe there's another ! code to increase > the size? Is there any documentation on these? > > if axis_mode eq 3 then ytitle='!s!u'+ytitle+'!r!d'+ytitle2 > > Greg >
Of course - ycharsize does it - thanks. I hadn't thought past the plain charsize. The !C way is even better, though - thanks for that, too. Greg