| fg Margin and Layout keyword problems [message #90831] |
Fri, 24 April 2015 08:45 |
Matthew Argall
Messages: 286
Registered: October 2011
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I am trying to make four plots in a 2x2 layout with a rather lengthy caption (example below). The MARGIN and LAYOUT keywords are not playing well together. I set the bottom margin to 0.5, but it is not obeyed; the spacing between plots increases instead.
A few follow-up questions:
1. Why are the margins limited to 0.5? I sometimes want a left margin of 0.75 so I can push a column of plots to the right side of the window. It is much easier to use LAYOUT than to specifying a position for every plot.
2. Why is MARGIN not a keyword of the Window() function? Margins are typically a property of the page, not of the content on the page.
3. It would be helpful to be able to specify the spacing between plots.
4. Why do I have to specify the layout index instead of a layout position? I would rather not have to count to across rows and down columns every time I want to place a plot somewhere. Specifying the [row, column] in which I want to place the plot would be much more helpful.
I use cgLayout for all of this, but it should be natural in function graphics.
figure = window(WINDOW_TITLE='Margins and Layout')
margin = [0.2, 0.5, 0.05, 0.08]
;Create a lag-1 scatter plot for the first 128 data points
; - Plot x_i+1 vs. x_i
p1 = Plot(/TEST, /CURRENT, $
LAYOUT = [2,2,1], $
MARGIN = margin)
p2 = Plot(/TEST, /CURRENT, $
LAYOUT = [2,2,2], $
MARGIN = margin)
p3 = Plot(/TEST, /CURRENT, $
LAYOUT = [2,2,3], $
MARGIN = margin)
p4 = Plot(/TEST, /CURRENT, $
LAYOUT = [2,2,4], $
MARGIN = margin)
;Create a caption
gCaption = Text(0.05, 0.06, $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah !C' + $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah !C' + $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah !C' + $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah !C' + $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah !C' + $
'Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah')
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