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Re: Q: background of text ? [message #10448 is a reply to message #10445]

Thu, 04 December 1997 00:00

Erard
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Registered: November 1997

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> Hi
> I am looking for a routine which writes text into a plot
> window (like xyouts) but having additional the additional
> feature of the definition of a background box around the
> text with a specified color. I would like to use it in
> black&white maps where the text sometimes intersects with
> coastlines. At those locations I prefer an invisible
> coastline but visible text.
> Thanks
> Theo

I don't know of any routine that has this capability, but Legend (in the
astron library) can plot a text surrounded by a box. It shouldn't be too
hard to change the background colour.

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St�phane Erard
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
Orsay, France

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