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Re: Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? [message #85357 is a reply to message #85355]

Sun, 28 July 2013 17:29

David Fanning
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Bogdanovist writes:

> It looks like there is some kind of scaling going one, as if say IDL leaves a gap between the axis and the label of 10% of the character size. As the character size increases, so does the gap. Something like that seems to be happening, but I have to make the character size ridiculous to get the kind of whitespace desired.
>
> It seems there is no simple solution, which is as I suspected. That's fine, thanks for your help.

You can always put labels on yourself, with XYOutS or cgText. I do this
if I have to label a top axis, because the Axis command really doesn't
have any sense of space. It is often not terribly hard to do this.

Cheers,

David

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		Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? By: Matt Francis on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:32
		Re: Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:52
		Re: Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 July 2013 16:53
		Re: Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? By: Matt Francis on Sun, 28 July 2013 17:01
		Re: Increasing the whitespace between plot axes and the label? By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 July 2013 17:29

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