Hi Billy and Ferret developers,
| The problem is the blank space between i5, and ''LONW''. Take that
| out and I think it will work correctly.
Argh! SPECIFICALLY to avoid such a problem, I COPIED AND PASTED the
example from the Ferret Manual!! Yes, the manual contains the blank.
I usually try to use examples from the manual as much as possible, and
when I do so, I copy and paste text from it to minimize the chance of
mistakes on my part.
(And thanks Tony for your email.)
Anyway, developers, I wonder if you could fix the problem. I don't
think it's a good grammar if a blank space matters.
| Regarding the labels without degree marks .... You can in fact put
| any text within those double-single quotes, and it will follow the
| number. Therefore if you were making a map entirely within a single
| hemisphere, you could get labels without degree marks by statements
| of the form:
|
| ppl xfor,(i5,''W'');ppl yfor,(i5,''N'')
Thanks, and in fact I new that. (That was the reason I said
"40S", "20S", . . . , "20N", "40N".) Also, you'll get "-40S", etc.
in the Southern Hemisphere. . . .
| Personally, I insist on degree marks on map figures, and think that
| one of Ferret's advantages over, say, matlab, is that it does make
| these more professional-looking plots.
I agree to your last observation. But, when I really want to enhance
legibility to its maximum, I prefer "40S" without degree symbol.
The degree symbol does contribute to professional-looking-ness but
slightly reduces legibility. It introduces a tiny bit of extra
clutter without adding information. (In a ordinary map plot, "40S"
clearly and unambiguously means "40 degrees south" even without a
degree symbol. That's what I mean by "without adding information.")
Cheers,
Ryo