| Re: PV-WAVE and x-axis annotations [message #3680] |
Mon, 06 March 1995 06:20 |
mfishler
Messages: 5
Registered: October 1994
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In article <3j1m4i$fkq@elna.ethz.ch>, csillag@iem.ee.ethz.ch (Andre Csillaghy) writes:
> I cannot get PV-WAVE to write coorectly (with the PostScript driver)
> an x-axis annotation with exponents. The number in the exponent
> is touching the axis so that it looks ugly. I tried so many settings of
> margin, position, etc that I am getting sick and tired of such pv-wave imperfections (in my opinion it should be done right without even having to change any system variable).
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> So two questions:
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> 1- How can I do it right ?
> 2- Does that problem exist in IDL ?
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Can't help with Q#2, but for Q#1 here are a couple of ideas:
One option (perhaps not ideal) would be to prepend a carriage return ('!C')
to your xaxis annotation, thereby shifting the entire annotation down away from
the axis. Another possibility (probably even less desirable) would be to use
XYOUTS to position the xaxis annotation explicitly instead of having PLOT do
it for you.
Take your pick. Enjoy.
==Matthew
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| Re: PV-WAVE and x-axis annotations [message #3724 is a reply to message #3680] |
Wed, 01 March 1995 15:53  |
rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991
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In article <3j1m4i$fkq@elna.ethz.ch>, csillag@iem.ee.ethz.ch (Andre Csillaghy) writes:
> I cannot get PV-WAVE to write coorectly (with the PostScript driver)
> an x-axis annotation with exponents. The number in the exponent
> is touching the axis so that it looks ugly. I tried so many settings of
> margin, position, etc that I am getting sick and tired of such pv-wave imperfections (in my opinion it should be done right without even having to change any system variable).
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> So two questions:
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> 1- How can I do it right ?
> 2- Does that problem exist in IDL ?
Those are hard questions to answer without an example of a program which looks
bad in PV-WAVE. However, I just did the following in IDL
; IDL Version 3.6.1a (vms alpha)
; Journal File for CARS3::RIVERS
; Working directory: USER_DISK:[RIVERS.COMMITTEES]
; Date: Wed Mar 1 17:21:00 1995
y = 1. + findgen(1000)
x = 1000 * y
set_plot, 'ps'
device, xsize=10, ysize=7, /inch, /land
!p.font=0
plot_io, x, y
device, /close
$print idl.ps
With this example, the X axis exponents do not touch the X axis, although they
are close. Note that this was done with the default Postscript hardware font
and font size (!p.font=0).
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