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Re: 2 plotting questions [message #69790 is a reply to message #69783]

Fri, 12 February 2010 05:40

David Fanning
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will.flanagan writes:

> I have 2 questions with regards to plotting. I hope that these are not
> too basic:
>
> 1. How do you make the plotting grid more thick when using a simple
> 'plot' procedure? I see how to make characters and lines thinker with
> the 'thick' and 'charthick' keywords, but I don't see how to make the
> axis thicker.

Use XThick, YThick, etc. Or, !X.Thick, !Y.Thick, etc.

> If it is relevant, I am plotting to postscript and I want the plots to
> show up better in presentations.

Oh, well, then use PS_Start. All this is then done automatically. ;-)

http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/weboutput.html

> 2. Completely unrelated - In the plot labels, I wish to use more
> sophisticated symbols, such as a character with a ~ above or a
> character with both a subscript and superscript which are not offset.
> Are there any easy ways to do this in IDL?

It depends on whether you can find these characters in a font-set
somewhere. If you can, it is fairly easy. If you can't, then
it is not so easy.

http://www.dfanning.com/graphics_tips/numlabel.html

Cheers,

David

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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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