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Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? [message #1892 is a reply to message #1891]

Fri, 18 March 1994 04:35

zawodny
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Registered: August 1992

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In article <2mc3vlINNa2v@i32.sma.ch> stl@sma.ch (Stephen Strebel) writes:
>
> I am trying to find out if anyone has succesfully been able to create a
> margin at the top of a page while !p.multi is being used.

I and a number of fellow workers here have sought a solution to this
problem as well. There is a brute force way of creating margins by changing
the values in !y.margin as your plotting proceeds row by row, but this is very
tedious and very much trial by error. Another way is to use an entire row or
column of plots as a blank region by having !p.multi start the first plot inm
the second row. I have not tried this, but if there was a way to fool IDL into
thinking that the paper (or window) was larger than it actually was you could
have some control over how much of the first row of plots was actually visible.

What I would propose as an ultimate solution to the folks at RSI is to
utilize the values in !p.position as a window in which !p.multi takes effect.
As it is now if !p.multi is non-zero then !p.position is ignored (at least this
was true a while back and I have not tested it recently). Placement and sizing
of the individual plots could still be controlled by !x(y).margin. An example
of why we would like to do this would be to place a color bar at the bottom (or
side) of a multi panel image.

As it is now, there is not an easy (natural) way to get around these
limitations (that I know of).

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		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: stl on Mon, 21 March 1994 23:37
		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: zawodny on Mon, 21 March 1994 05:36
		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: candey on Fri, 18 March 1994 14:22
		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: schmitt on Fri, 18 March 1994 11:11
		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: pcp2g on Fri, 18 March 1994 07:21
		Re: !p.multi question: margin possible at top of page? By: zawodny on Fri, 18 March 1994 04:35

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