Hi , When you comment out the SHADE command, Ferret does not do the setup activities that the shade command does, including setting the longitude and latitude units and the length of the the axes that are plotted on the page. The main trouble is that you are starting with a POLY/OVERLAY command which does no setup. I think the best solution is to start with a call to the basemap.jnl script, instead of the call to fland that you have in your script. This way the axes are set up, and are properly labeled with degrees longitude and latitude. Or you could use /HLIMITS and /VLIMITS on the first POLYGON command to set the correct lengths of the plot axes, and remove the /OVERLAY qualifier on the first call so that Ferret knows this is the first plot and it needs to do the setup steps, setting axis length and so on Solution 1: go basemap x=160e:180e y=60s:40s 5 let AA={168,168.5,168.5,168} let BB={-50,-50,-50.5,-50.5} polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,-0.5+BB or, Solution 2: let AA={168,168.5,168.5,168} let BB={-50,-50,-50.5,-50.5} polygon/nolabel/HLIMITS=160e:180e/VLIMITS=60s:40s/line/thick=0.2 AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,-0.5+BB go fland 5-Ansley Namba Takaya wrote: Hello Mick I am sorry to make you confused. I explain again. I use ferret 5.7 on the PC linux (Mandrake 10.1). If I delete two lines (make them comments) like below, it only draws a strange line without the map of New Zealand. If I put two lines, I can get six grids with the proper map as I want. Could you tell me why? set region/x=160e:180e/y=40s:60s !!! use etopo5 !!! shade/nokey/nolabel/level=(0,10000) rose let AA={168,168.5,168.5,168} let BB={-50,-50,-50.5,-50.5} polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 0.5+AA,-0.5+BB polygon/nolabel/over/line/thick=0.2 1.0+AA,-0.5+BB go fland 5 quit --- Mick.Spillane@noaa.gov からのメッセージ:Hello Namba Takaya, Your script works fine for me using ferret v5.70 - I get six little boxes below the island. The /thick=0.2 does not match the description in the manual where the allowed values for the argument would seem to be 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the thicknesses of lines 1, 7, and 13 in the case of regular black lines. But the value 0.2 does not cause any problem when I tested your script - it just gave a normal thickness line. Can you give more detail about how the script failed when you ran it. Mick |!!! Mick.Spillane@noaa.gov !!!| |__Room 2070 Bldg#3 NOAA/PMEL__| |____Phone_:_(206)526-6780_____|__________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Upgrade Your Life http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ |