| Re: axis label fontsize vs. tick label size [message #15895] |
Mon, 21 June 1999 00:00 |
Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997
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noymer@my-deja.com wrote:
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> I am making some simple xy scatterplots. I would like to make
> the y-axis label bigger (ie larger fontsize), but I don't want
> to change the size of the tick labels.
>
> YCHARSIZE=xxx seems to change both in my experiments. Is that
> correct?
>
> One possibility would be to add the axis label separately using
> XYOUTS or ANNOTATE, but in this case the text-box would have to
> be rotated to make it look like a y-axis label. For this reason
> it seems like a lot of work, though maybe it's not so bad as it
> seems?
>
Well, it's not that bad!
To give you a fairly general solution:
; create your plot
plot,findgen(10) ; ...other keywords
; get coordinates for label
cx = !x.window[0] - 0.06 ; value depends on width of
; tickmark labels
cy = total(!y.window)/2.
; produce the ytitle
xyouts,cx,cy,'My title',/NORM,charsize=2., $
align=0.5,orientation=90
Good luck,
Martin
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