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Re: evenly spaced text in xyouts [message #67783]

Mon, 31 August 2009 12:52

Michael Galloy
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Mark Quigley wrote:
> I find myself stumped by this problem, but perhaps someone who
> actually understands fonts might help me out?
>
> I'm doing the following:
>
> xyouts,.5, .5, 'abc def'
> xyouts,.5, .4, 'hij klm'
> xyouts,.5, .3,'123 456'
>
>
> I'd like the output to the plot to line up nicely. However, no matter
> what font perversion I use the characters have different widths, so
> the columns dont line up.
>
> Is there some reasonably simple way to line up the columns (ie, a font
> I haven't discovered where the characters are all forced to have the
> same width?)

You mean like this?

IDL> device, set_font='Courier', /tt_font
IDL> xyouts,.5, .5, 'abc def', /normal, font=1, charsize=2
IDL> xyouts,.5, .4, 'hij klm', /normal, font=1, charsize=2
IDL> xyouts,.5, .3,'123 456', /normal, font=1, charsize=2

Mike
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