Re: How does one get the ferret label command to work on a contourplot onLinux?

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lev,

The formatted strings "60W" and "81.66N" will not be understood by the
LABEL command.  Use the equivalent numerical values. (Ferret can
translate the formatted strings using grave accent notation, but it takes
a couple of messy steps. Probably not worth it unless you need to
automate this.)

The lack of error message is because "LABEL" is an alias for "PPL
%LABEL". i.e. the command is sent directly to PLOT+ without syntax
checking. PLOT+ is pretty stingy with error messages.

    - steve

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Lev Tarasoff wrote:

> I can get the label command to work for the plot command, but not for
> the contour (shade,..) commands on RH Linux 6.0.
>
> Specifically, if I try:
> --------------
> DEFINE AXIS/X=74.5W:4.5W:1/UNIT=DEGREE xlon
> DEFINE AXIS/Y=56.75N:84.75N:0.5/UNIT=DEGREE ylat
> DEFINE GRID/X=xlon/Y=ylat  gr105
>
> SET REGION  /X=74W:15W
> FILE/SKIP=6/VAR="hd,H" /GRID=gr105 mydata
>
> contour hd
> LABEL 60W,81.66N,0,0,0.2 @C13"MY LABEL"
> ------------
> no label shows up, nor do I get any error messages.
>
> HELP, I need to get to get my slides together by tomorrow for a
> conference!
>
> Thanks
>
> Lev Tarasoff -  Dept of Physics, University of Toronto,
>                 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
>                 Tel (416)-946-3019  Fax (416)-978-8905
>                 email: lev@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

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