Steve Schwartz wrote: > Dear All, > > I know you are concentrating on the next release, but wanted to post > this query while it was in my mind. For our application, users typically > stack many plots together on a page, often with a common X-axis, to > compare different parameters at the same time. If this is done in > separate plot panels, as in the first attached file, then plplots > automatic labelling algorithms work pretty well and when the labelling > is done using floating point notation the result is ok. > > However, as one adds more panels or, as in the 2nd example, controls the > layout more by creating a true "stack" then the "(x10^6)" etc., appear > next to the panel above. Worse, depending on how the labelling is done > it is easy for these powers of 10 labels to interfere with the > text-labelling of another panel. (The attached example is actually not > terrible, but I could easily generate very ugly ones.) > > It would appear that the position and orientation of this x10^nn > labelling is not under user programmer control. It would be nice to be > able to control this or, perhaps better, have the option to suppress it > altogether but access the resulting string (or exponent) so that we > could construct a complete label, e.g., "Te.para (x10#u6#d K)". This > suppression is more dangerous but offers more flexibility. Merely being > able to change the position and orientation would already be a big help. > > This would need to be done somewhere in the core routines I suspect. > > Any comments on the desirability of any of this and a possible > implementation?
One option is to make the graph without any labels, then add them yourself using plmtex(). This gives you complete control of the label text and position at the cost of having to layout all the labels yourself. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
