Re: [ferret_users] Magnitude of vector plots

["William S. Kessler" <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

As in many such commands with /NOLABEL, you need to use /SET and  
specify the labelling by hand. For example:

vector/set/nolab uwind,vwind
ppl veckey,xpos,ypos,,(f4.1," m s^-^1")
ppl vector

Note the PPL VECKEY command.
(xpos,ypos) is the (user-units) location of the label.
The 3rd argument is always blank.
The 4th argument allows you to specify the format of the numerical  
label, and also add label text, as shown.
   Note that there is a character limit on the label, which I think  
is 11 characters (including the numerical label).

Another useful command gives the size of text for the label:

ppl labset,main,xlab,ylab,default-labels

where default-labels will be the character height of all labels  
otherwise unspecified, including the vector key label.
This command would go between VECTOR/SET/... and PPL VECTOR.
In your case you might do:

ppl labset,,,,.15

You could also do this as an overlay (for example to a map of  
pressure, bathymetry, etc:

vector/set/nolab/over uwind,vwind
... other commands as above ...
ppl vector/over

Billy K

On 24 Aug 2010, at 9:48 AM, Balaguru, Karthik wrote:

>  Dear ferret users,
>
>       I have a small question with plotting vector plots. If I have  
> uwind,vwind and use the command
>
> vector uwind,vwind
>
>       I'm able to plot the vectors but the expressions are displayed  
> below. However, if I use
>
> vector/nolabel uwind,vwind
>
>        then even the magnitude indicating vector goes away along  
> with the names of the expressions.
> I would like to keep the magnitude indicating vector and just take  
> out the names of the expressions.
> It'll be great if anyone can show how to do this. Thanks!
>
>   Karthik.

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