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Re: Color Fonts?!?!? [message #30353 is a reply to message #30304]

Thu, 18 April 2002 11:44

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Sean Davis (sdavis@nis.lanl.gov) writes:

> I'm not sure I understand how to find where the XTITLE would have been
> placed on the plot, in the monochrome case. If you knew where the XTITLE
> would have been placed, then it seems that using XYOUTS would work great.
>
> For example, the monochrome case would be
>
> PLOT, findgen(20), xtitle = 'This is a cool title'
>
> It seems to me you're saying that if I wanted the word 'cool' to be blue,
> I could do the following:
>
> 1. PLOT, findgen(20)
>
> 2. Break the title string into 3 strings
>
> 3. Make 3 calls to XYOUTS
>
> So my question is, how would I know the correct positions to send to
> XYOUTS so that the xtitle appears in the same place as it would as if I
> had just called
>
> PLOT, findgen(20), xtitle='this is a cool title'
>
> ???

Uh, oh. I was afraid this wasn't as easy as Ken thought
it would be. :-(

I'd start with !X.Window and !Y.Window as likely places
to figure out where a title goes. Just be sure you like
Charsize=1, or you might *really* get bogged down. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Color Fonts?!?!? By: Sdavis on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:26
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Thu, 18 April 2002 12:51
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Thu, 18 April 2002 12:38
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 18 April 2002 11:44
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Tue, 23 April 2002 12:45
		Re : Color Fonts?!?!? By: rmw092001 on Tue, 20 August 2002 20:13

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