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From: William Henney <when...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Pgfplots-features] How to customize legend labels for
scatter/classes?
To: Clemens Helfmeier <cleme...@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Hi Clemens
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Clemens Helfmeier
<cleme...@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> to modify the literal string in the legend, use the
> \addlegendentry{\ion{Ne}{2}}
> command. It works for graphs and for scatter classes. Just add labels in the
> order they appear as scatter classes.
That works! I was sure I had tried that before and couldn't get it to
work, but I must have had some other error at the time.
Many thanks
Will
>
> Best regards,
> Clemens
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:48:27PM -0600, William Henney wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I've recently started using pgfplots and am very impressed so far. Mostly, I
>> have found answers to all my questions in the excellent manual, but today I
>> hit a problem that I couldn't get round.
>> Hopefully, someone on this list can help me out.
>>
>> In the attached figure, I am using scatter/classes with a column that is read
>> from the accompanying data file. This works fine, and I can make a legend
>> showing each class and accompanying marker. But I want to modify the text
>> that appears in the legend for each class, so that it isn't just the literal
>> string from the "meta" data column. For instance, I want it to be
>> "[\ion{Ne}{2}]" instead of "Ne2". Is this possible?
>>
>> Another thing I tried was to use the extended \label[...]{...} syntax
>> discussed in the manual (p.79), but I couldn't get it to work. When I
>> uncomment the line containing \ref, I get various errors such as "! Package
>> pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/pgfplots/error
>> bars/mark'", see attached log file.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Will
>>
>> --
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>> Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia
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