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Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? [message #85873 is a reply to message #85869]

Sun, 15 September 2013 22:26

Paul Levine
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Registered: February 2008

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On 2013-09-15 22:28:20 +0000, David Fanning said:

> David Grier writes:
>
>>
>> On Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:21:36 PM UTC-4, Paul Levine wrote:
>>> Another simple axis labeling question that is probably very basic but
>>>
>>> is confounding me:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can the size of the text in axis titles be set independently from axis
>>>
>>> labels? [XYZ]CHARSIZE sets both. Must I simply leave the title out of
>>>
>>> the call to AXIS and instead use XYOUTS (or cgText)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> I enthusiastically second this request. I typically want axis labels a few
>> points larger than tick labels for publication-quality plots. It should
>> be possible to expose the properties of the axis label independently
>> of those of the tick labels.
>
> Try the [XYZ]Charsize keywords. These are scaled in relationship to the
> value established by the CHARSIZE keyword.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Unless I am doing something wrong (quite possible!), it seems that
[XYZ]CHARSIZE, as I mentioned in my first post, scales both the axis
labels and the axis title simultaneously. I would like to make the
axis labels very small without affecting the axis title.

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		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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