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Re: Date labeling in PLOT IDL8 [message #76315 is a reply to message #76257]

Thu, 26 May 2011 03:28

corinnefrey
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Registered: November 2006

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Hi Klemen,

Ok, not a bad idea, thanks. For publication however this will not
acceptable... I guess, I stay with the old plot procedure for this
kind of plots...

Cheers,

On May 23, 10:31 am, Klemen <klemen.zak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I had similar problems - I could not put the label in the middle
> of the interval. I decided in the end to use LABEL_DATE function,
> where I put some spaces in front of code for the month (%M). The
> problem is, that IDL ignores all empty spaces if there is no other
> charcter in front of it. So I made a compromise and put a point in the
> beginning. If you look your graph long enough you will of course see
> these points, but others will probably not notice it. :)
>
> Cheers, Klemen
>
> dat_form = LABEL_DATE(DATE_FORMAT='. %M %D') ;note
> the point and spaces in front of %M
>
> ka = PLOT([0], XRANGE = [xmin,xmax], YRANGE = [ymin,ymax], $
> YTITLE='$\it$RP $\rm$[MW]', $ XTITLE='Date', $
> SYM_SIZE = 0., FONT_SIZE= 8, FONT_NAME ='Arial', $
> XTICKINTERVAL=1, XMINOR=3, XTICKLEN=0.03, YTICKLEN=0.03, $
> XTICKUNITS='Day', XTICKFORMAT='LABEL_DATE', XTICKLAYOUT=0)

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		Date labeling in PLOT IDL8 By: corinnefrey on Fri, 13 May 2011 00:41
		Re: Date labeling in PLOT IDL8 By: Klemen on Mon, 23 May 2011 01:31
		Re: Date labeling in PLOT IDL8 By: corinnefrey on Thu, 26 May 2011 03:28

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