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Re: Main, Axis, and Movable Label Heights



One addition to Mick's excellent reply, just a note that the ppl
commands are all documented in this on-line document:

http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/PPLUS_Users_Guide/pplus_users_guide.html

Ansley Manke

Mick Spillane wrote:

> The heights of labels can be controlled by the Plotplus command
> "labset" with the following syntax
>         ppl labset hmain hxaxis hyaxis hmove
> where hmain, hxaxis, hyaxis, and hmove are respectively the heights
> in inches of the Main or Title label, the X-axis, the Y-axis and
> Movable labels. For example
>
>         plot/nolab/set/i=1:10/title="Main Label" 1/i
>         ppl xlab X-axis Label
>         ppl ylab Y-axis Label
>         ppl labs 1 A Movable Label
>         ppl labset 0.2 0.17 0.14 0.25
>         ppl plot
>
> Try this. The Main and Axis labels are drawn with the sizes requested
> then a dialog box appears for the Movable label. Click on "Center" then
> position the crosshairs where you want the movable label to go and
> click again.
>
> Note the plot/NOLAB above!  If the /NOLAB were absent size of the movable
> label #1 would be that assigned to the first of the Ferret labels that
> appear by default in the upper right "FERRET Ver. 5.22" which would then
> disappear in the above example.  Heights of individual Movable Labels is
> controlled by the Plotplus hlabs command as in
>         ppl hlabs n hlabn
> where n is a movable label number and hlabn its requested height in
> inches which will override the default movable axis height set in the
> "labset" command.
>
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