John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > I'm trying to further improve the appearance of histograms and other > charts. One of the problems we still have is the x-axis labels clashing > with one another. > > I think a good solution would be to have them orientated at 45 deg when there > are lots of bins. This is what other software does > (http://www.tulane.edu/~panda2/Analysis2/one-way/histog1.jpg) > > Pango/Cairo makes it quite easy to do this. But I'm not sure how it would fit > in with our existing code. For example xrchart_label in > src/output/cairo-chart.c > looks like: > > void xrchart_label (cairo_t *, int horz_justify, int vert_justify, > double font_size, const char *); > > How do we express rotated text in terms of horizontal and vertical > justification? > Maybe we should generalize this interface?
I guess we'd add a new interface that includes a rotation? _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
