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Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? [message #19771 is a reply to message #19698]

Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00

Rachel Howe
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Registered: May 1996

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Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan wrote:
>
> In article <MPG.135ee234b9aa2a5989acb@news.frii.com>
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
>>
>> Rachel Howe (rhowe@noao.edu) writes:
> [..]
>>> Does anyone know how the distance of the axis label from the axis is
>>> determined in a single-panel 2d plot?
>>> There doesn't seem to be any way to control it directly, but it must be
>>> some arcane function of the plot area, position/margin settings, and
>>> character size. If anyone knows an algorithm, I'd be delighted to hear
>>> it.
>>> Or would it be easier to give up and just use
>>> XYOUTS to put the annotations where I want them?
>>
>> Ooohh, someone as anal as I am about the looks of things!
>> Thank goodness, I had just about abandoned all hope. :-)
>
> I guess you're entitled to be a little bit "anal" if your plots are
> appearing in the journal Science... See the first Report listed on
> this page: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol287/issue5462/

That did have something to do with it, yes. In the end, Science
relettered
most of the axes anyway, but we did TRY to get them right! Now I'm just
trying to produce a poster that's worth keeping after the meeting.

--
Rachel Howe
National Solar Observatory, Tucson

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		Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Rachel Howe on Wed, 12 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Rachel Howe on Fri, 14 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Mark Hadfield on Fri, 14 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Rachel Howe on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Rachel Howe on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: davidf on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
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		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: Matthew Argall on Thu, 01 May 2014 16:59
		Re: Controlling axis labels in IDL plots? By: laura.hike on Thu, 01 May 2014 18:10

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