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Re: Color Fonts?!?!? [message #30301 is a reply to message #30299]

Wed, 17 April 2002 11:42

Ken Mankoff
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Registered: February 2000

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> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:26:45 -0600
> From: Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov>
> Does anyone know how to make a string have different colored fonts. I
> would like the x-axis title on a plot to have a string that has different
> colors. thanks!

I do this via multiple calls to plot, and using the /NODATA and
/NOERASE keywords. Note that each call should "build" on the previous
ones (ex: remove a "chars=2" from a later call, and it will not work)

loadct, 39
data = indgen(10)
plot, data, /nodata, color=253, xtitle='foo', chars=2
plot, data, /nodata, color=100, xticklen=1, yticklen=1, /noerase, chars=2
plot, data, /noerase, chars=2, psym=-2

I have never made color axis titles until now, but use this method all
the time to put light-gray grids behind my plots (I have one index of
my colortables set to [120,120,120]). It lets you read off the data
more accurately (without using a ruler), but is non-intrusive to the
eye. I think you could even get each letter of your title to be
different, except that it might require a FOR loop (oh no!)

-k.

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		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 17 April 2002 14:18
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:34
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:40
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:23
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:12
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:46
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:27
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:13
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:42
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:46
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:43
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Sdavis on Thu, 18 April 2002 11:32
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: R.Bauer on Tue, 23 April 2002 09:55

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