Re: [ferret_users] Re: [Ferret_users] : increase font size on ticklabels

[Hein Zelle <hein@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ansley Manke wrote:

> In general, we don't have a real ability to change to bold.  The
> fonts are pretty limited, but there is one thing you can try.  It
> doesn't always look too good, but it might improve some plots:
> 
> PPL PEN,0,7 ! changes the pen used for all the labels and axis lines
> to pen 7, the "thick" pen.
> 
> This setting persists on all your plots until you change it.

That works pretty well, I've had the following script in use for
publication plots quite some time now, put it somewhere in the ferret path:  

~/files/ferret/thick.jnl

! use thick lines for everything
ppl pen 0,13
ppl pen 1,13
ppl pen 2,14
ppl pen 3,15
ppl pen 4,16
ppl pen 5,17
ppl pen 6,18

When making a print-quality plot I just

fill /set_up ...
go thick
ppl fill

and just about all lines end up thick enough for printing. 

Regards,

	Hein Zelle

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 Hein Zelle                     hein@icce.rug.nl
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