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Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance [message #77593 is a reply to message #77591]

Mon, 12 September 2011 08:26

lecacheux.alain
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On 12 sep, 17:00, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Paul van Delst writes:
>> the final NG contour plot is clearly inferior to the DG/CG original. the final label orientation (all horiz rather than
>> following the contour) is laughable. And the fact that the default is to stick in some of the labels upside-down (your
>> 4th ng plot) even more so.
>
> Well, yes, but the kicker for me is that you have
> to create a second, "ghost" contour plot to get the
> ranges on the color bar right. Unbelievable!
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

The "ghost" contour is one of possible workarounds. Another one would
be to rewrite the colorbar axis by playing with TICKNAME and TICKVALUE
keywords. But they are only workarounds: I hope that ITTVIS people
will be able to offer a true solution !
alain.

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		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 September 2011 13:49
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: penteado on Tue, 13 September 2011 13:38
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 September 2011 13:07
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: Mark Piper on Tue, 13 September 2011 13:01
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 September 2011 08:53
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: lecacheux.alain on Mon, 12 September 2011 12:59
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 12:55
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 11:43
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 11:18
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 11:01
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 10:50
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: Mark Piper on Mon, 12 September 2011 10:25
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 10:12
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 10:05
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: Mark Piper on Mon, 12 September 2011 09:48
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 08:35
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: lecacheux.alain on Mon, 12 September 2011 08:26
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 September 2011 08:00
		Re: Teaching an Elephant to Dance By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 12 September 2011 07:52

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