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Re: Another idiosyncracy? [message #91946 is a reply to message #91945]

Mon, 21 September 2015 19:47

David Fanning
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wlandsman writes:

>
> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 7:35:38 PM UTC-4, David Fanning wrote:
>
>> P.S. Let's just say Coyote was right handed and he allowed you to
>> specify the left-hand corner, or any other damn location you wanted
>> (nine choices!), in cgLegend. :-)
>
> And often one does not want to specify or know the numerical location of the legend, but rather one just wants to place the legend snug in a corner of the plot . Here's how to do this with the direct graphics procedure AL_LEGEND
>
> IDL> cgplot,indgen(10)
> IDL> al_legend,['This is a very long title'],lines=0,/right ;Place legend snug in upper right
> IDL> al_legend,['short'],lines=1,/bottom,/right ;Place legend snug in lower right

In truth, Coyote probably stole most of the code from AL_Legend. He told
me once that almost all of his good ideas were first thought up at NASA.
;-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Another idiosyncracy? By: laura.hike on Mon, 21 September 2015 16:19
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 September 2015 16:35
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: wlandsman on Mon, 21 September 2015 19:39
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: David Fanning on Mon, 21 September 2015 19:47
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: penteado on Tue, 22 September 2015 03:23
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: wlandsman on Tue, 22 September 2015 08:11
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: laura.hike on Wed, 23 September 2015 12:22
		Re: Another idiosyncracy? By: laura.hike on Wed, 23 September 2015 13:06

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