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Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? [message #85870 is a reply to message #85869]

Sun, 15 September 2013 18:22

dg86
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On Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:28:20 PM UTC-4, David Fanning wrote:
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>> On Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:21:36 PM UTC-4, Paul Levine wrote:
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>>> Another simple axis labeling question that is probably very basic but
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>>> Can the size of the text in axis titles be set independently from axis
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>>> labels? [XYZ]CHARSIZE sets both. Must I simply leave the title out of
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>>> the call to AXIS and instead use XYOUTS (or cgText)?
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>>> Thanks in advance
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>> I enthusiastically second this request. I typically want axis labels a few
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>> points larger than tick labels for publication-quality plots. It should
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>> be possible to expose the properties of the axis label independently
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> Try the [XYZ]Charsize keywords. These are scaled in relationship to the
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Setting charsize and [x,y,z]charsize works for direct graphics. In function graphics,
however, the only accessible property is FONT_SIZE, which sets the same size for
both the axis title and the tick labels. This seems to be a limitation of the underlying
AXIS object which has the property TICKFONT_SIZE, but not a separate property for
the title font size.

Perhaps if there were some way to get access to the IDLgrAxis object that must be
the basis for AXIS, it would be possible to set properties for the title, which is an
IDLgrText object. I haven't cracked that nut yet, unfortunately.

All the best,

David

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[Message index]

		Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Sun, 15 September 2013 12:21
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 14:29
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: David Fanning on Sun, 15 September 2013 15:28
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 18:22
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Sun, 15 September 2013 22:26
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: David Fanning on Mon, 16 September 2013 05:38
		Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? By: Paul Levine on Mon, 16 September 2013 11:43

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