| Re: print text sideways in a plot: XYOUTS [message #41167 is a reply to message #41165] |
Mon, 27 September 2004 19:41  |
Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996
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"Yaj" <yajnaval@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way in IDL to display text at an angle or sideways ? I am trying
> "xyouts" on a page which has multiple plots. The size of the text from
> xtitle or ytitle of any one plot is not enough, so need to use xyouts in
> large fonts for the title of the entire page, and also large fonts are
> required for the title of the y axis common to all the subplots etc. If I
> use "ytitle" specifying a certain larger character size, it enlarges the
> tick labels of the y-axis of that subplot, making it smaller than the other
> plots on the page.
Greetings--
My solution in these circumstances, is to plot all of the plots with
no Y title, and then put in an explicit XYOUTS call at the end to
label the Y axis. [ I suppose this is what you are trying to do, but
it's not totally clear. ]
The ORIENTATION keyword to XYOUTS allows you to specify an angle for
the text. It is documented.
Also, I often use XMARGIN or YMARGIN when I need to allow extra space
around a given plot.
Yours,
Craig
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