Re: cnInfoLabels overlap

From: Adam Phillips <asphilli_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:22:26 -0700

Hi Oliver,
You could try moving one of the plots cnInfoLabel's down farther by
setting cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF to say -0.02:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/cn.shtml#cnInfoLabelOrthogonalPosF

As far as to what the wrf script does I cannot say...
Adam

Dennis Shea wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> This is related to the scripts created by WRF.
> I have forwarded the email to WRF help [wrfhelp_at_ucar.edu]
>
>
> D
>
>
> Oliver.Fuhrer_at_meteoswiss.ch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm plotting a series of plots using gsn_map and gsn_contour and then
>> overlaying them using the overlay command. The WRF routines seem to
>> use a very similar strategy. In the examples on the WRF homepage (see
>> for example
>> http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/Graphics/NCL/Examples/wrf_PressureLevel.htm)
>> the cnInfoLabels of each line contour plot do not overlap and are
>> drawn one below the other.
>>
>> Using my very simple overlay strategy, the cnInfoLabel are drawn one
>> on top of the other (see attached graphic). I've tried to reverse
>> engineer the WRFUserARW.ncl to see how they do it. But I didn't manage
>> to find it.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the trick is?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
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