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Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? [message #85869 is a reply to message #85868]

Sun, 15 September 2013 15:28

David Fanning
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David Grier writes:

>
> On Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:21:36 PM UTC-4, Paul Levine wrote:
>> Another simple axis labeling question that is probably very basic but
>>
>> is confounding me:
>>
>>
>>
>> Can the size of the text in axis titles be set independently from axis
>>
>> labels? [XYZ]CHARSIZE sets both. Must I simply leave the title out of
>>
>> the call to AXIS and instead use XYOUTS (or cgText)?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>
> I enthusiastically second this request. I typically want axis labels a few
> points larger than tick labels for publication-quality plots. It should
> be possible to expose the properties of the axis label independently
> of those of the tick labels.

Try the [XYZ]Charsize keywords. These are scaled in relationship to the
value established by the CHARSIZE keyword.

Cheers,

David

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		Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Sun, 15 September 2013 12:21
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 14:29
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: David Fanning on Sun, 15 September 2013 15:28
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 18:22
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Sun, 15 September 2013 22:26
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: David Fanning on Mon, 16 September 2013 05:38
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Mon, 16 September 2013 11:43

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