Re: Wind Rose Plot

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:14:26 -0600

A quick look indicates 3 places to make changes in your local
version. Search for txFontHeightF and make larger

txRes_at_txFontHeightF = 0.0100 ; 10% 20 % etc
txRes_at_txFontHeightF = 0.0140 ; mean speed at the end of each petal
txRes_at_txFontHeightF = 0.70*txRes_at_txFontHeightF

good luck

Mary Haley wrote:
>
> Hi Erin,
>
> I'm not very familiar with the wind rose code, and it doesn't appear
> to be documented, but I don't think you can easily change the font
> size of the text in the plot without editing the wind rose code
> itself.
>
> I'm not sure which text you are talking about, but most of the wind
> rose text is being added with calls to "gsn_add_text". If you are
> willing, you can make a personal copy of
> $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/wind_rose.ncl and modify it
> yourself. Look for the calls to "gsn_add_text", and try to figure out
> which one is drawing the text that you want to increase the size for.
>
> Then, change the value for "txRes_at_txFontHeightF" to the value you
> want, or else apply a scale factor to it.
>
> I'm cc-ing the author of this code in case he has other suggestions.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 ebachyns_at_umich.edu wrote:
>
>> I am using the WindRoseBasic function. I would like to increase the
>> font size of the text in the plot, including the size of the labels
>> and titles. Is there any way to do this?
>> Thanks,
>> Erin
>>
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