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Re: Different charsize for axis title and labels? [message #85897 is a reply to message #85876]

Mon, 16 September 2013 11:43

Paul Levine
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Registered: February 2008

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On 2013-09-16 12:38:27 +0000, David Fanning said:

> Paul Levine writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, I misunderstood your original question. Sorry.
>
> In direct graphics, the only way to do this would be in two steps in
> which you draw the axis title in the second step with cgText or its
> equivalent. The difficulty here is that the algorithm for where to place
> the title text seems very difficult to come by. At least it has eluded
> me for quite a number of years now. Of course, I have been known to be a
> little overly anal about this kind of thing, so you might have better
> luck. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Thanks, the solution you mentioned (using cgText to place the title
after the plot or axis command is run) is what I have been doing in the
mean time, and does indeed lead to the difficulty of figuring out where
to place it. Specifically, it is the yloc that I end up needing to
find using trial and error (xloc of 0.5 using normalized coordinates
with alignment=0.5 seems to work for the horizontal placement).

The onle thing I have not yet tried, and was thinking might work, would
be to place the axis title with an additional call to axis (or cgAxis).
I will let you know if I get anywhere with that

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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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