On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:35 AM, June Kim (김창준) <junea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Andrew Nikitin <ns...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > From: June Kim (???) <junea...@gmail.com> >> > >> > That's too bad. How is plot's drawtext implemented in the low level? It >> > seems like to call 11!:0 y. Is there any possibility to implement a new >> > feature easily? >> >> Define "easily". >> For exmaple, you can place labels with >> >> plot i.10 >> pd 'textc 100 20 asdf' >> pd 'show' >> >> and adjust values of 100 and 20 appropriately. It will even preserve >> relative >> position if you scale your form a little bit. Not sure how to do rotation, >> though. >> >> > I found a way to do the rotation. As a starting point, > > pd 'reset' > pd 'labels 0 1' > pd i.10 > pd 'textfont Arial 9 angle900' > pd 'text 100 0 Hello World' > pd 'show' > > Now I need to increase the bottom margin to make space for rotated > xlabels. > I am not sure if this is the right approach to increase the bottom margin, but it seems to work anyway: pd 'reset' pd 'textfont Arial 9 angle900' pd 'textr 50 220 Hello World' pd 'textr 150 220 J Language' pd 'textr 250 220 APL' pd 'textr 350 220 Kenneth Iverson' pd 'sub 0 180 1000 900' pd 'clear 0' pd 'labels 0 1' pd 'type bar' pd >:i.10 pd 'show' > > BTW, do not be too bent on generating everything with J. You can save >> properly >> resized plot into bmp and then edit category names there the way you >> want. If >> your categories are same all the time and only data changes -- save the >> bottom portion of your plot into another bmp and use it with subsequent >> plot >> of same size and layout. >> > > Yeah. Thanks for reminding me of good heuristics : do not try to use your > favorite tool for everything. > > >> >> > That's a clever idea, but looking at a 90 degrees rotated histogram is >> > unnatural to many people. :( >> >> Reading 90 degrees rotated text on x axis is also unnatural to many >> people. >> There is no best solution, you have to make some hard choices here. >> > > You are right. I have to choose between rotated bars and rotated xlabels > if I want to follow rotation approach. > > Thanks. > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
