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Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? [message #37538]

Mon, 05 January 2004 07:52

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Bruce Bowler wrote:
>
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:27:00 -0500, Ken Knapp put fingers to keyboard and
> said:
>
>> Bruce Bowler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Which works (even if entirely less than IOTTMCO {intuitivly obvious to
>>> most casual observer}), but gets inordinately complex if the plot in
>>> question is part of a multiplot.
>>
>> Sorry to but into the middle of this debate, but can't you use the
>> YMARGINS keyword to adjust the position? That shouldn't complicate your
>> multiplot.
>> From your example, I tried:
>> !p.multi=[0,3,3]
>> for i=0,8 do begin
>> plot, x, y, yrange = [-90, 90], /ystyle, /xstyle, $
>> ytickformat = "(a1)",title = title, $
>> xtitle = label, xrange = [0, 100], $
>> ticklen = -0.03,ymarg=[6,3]
>> endfor
>>
>>
>> ... and had no problem with the plots ... although the font was small.
>
> Thanks Ken,
>
> That does, indeed, do the trick. Now if only IDL was "smart" enough to do
> that, by default :-)

I dunno..I don't think I'd like a multi plot where each plot could have different
automatic ymargins based on my axis title. Wouldn't look very nice (IMO). Same goes for
multiple line plot titles.

paulv

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		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 05 January 2004 07:52
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 12:36
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Ken Knapp on Fri, 02 January 2004 12:27
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:51
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:29
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:26
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:13
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:11
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:11
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Fri, 02 January 2004 11:00
		Re: Why does IDL get this wrong? By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 January 2004 10:29

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