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Re: ticklen in NG plots [message #85634 is a reply to message #85601]

Thu, 22 August 2013 14:06

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:54:17 PM UTC-6, Xin Tao wrote:
>
> Is there any way to change ticklen globablly in IDL 8? The default ones always look too long for me. Maybe I'm used to the default ticklen in the traditional graphics system.
>

We're looking at ways to globally change defaults in NG. One workaround is to use keyword inheritance:

IDL> defaults = {color:'red', xticklen:0.02, yticklen:0.02, font_name:'Baskerville'}
IDL> p = plot([0,1], _extra=defaults)

Note that the default font must be Baskerville [1].

mp

[1] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye- people-hearken-o-earth/?ref=opinion

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		ticklen in NG plots By: Xin Tao on Tue, 20 August 2013 19:54
		Re: ticklen in NG plots By: Mark Piper on Thu, 22 August 2013 14:06
		Re: ticklen in NG plots By: David Fanning on Thu, 22 August 2013 15:31
		Re: ticklen in NG plots By: Mark Piper on Fri, 23 August 2013 07:37

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