Re: Legend Format

From: David Brown <dbrown_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 11:47:39 MST

Hi Brandon,

I can verify that there is currently no way to make the Legend object
behave as you would like. We have had requests like this before, and
we will put it onto the priority list.
  -dave

On Nov 6, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Brandon Fisel wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> Thank you for your reply! Example 7 was the option I was hoping to
> avoid here, strictly out of convenience.
>
> I performed a final search yesterday evening and did not find any
> information about a method for rotating the marker symbol using the
> legend resources.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Brandon Fisel
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 13:08, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
> (I might've missed them, but I didn't see any responses to your
> query.)
>
> In my mind the best way to do this would be to use the approach
> illustrated in example #7 here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/legend.shtml#ex7
>
> This doesn't use any of the legend resources. Instead, it uses
> gsn_text_ndc and gsn_polymarker_ndc...
> Adam
>
> Brandon Fisel wrote:
> Hi NCL'ers,
>
> Is there a way that I can plot a legend along 1 row, horizontally?
>
> In other words, I want a legend that would be formatted like the
> following:
>
> -- a -|- b ** c ~~ d
>
> for (/--,-|-,**,~~/) being some marker styles and a,b,c,d being some
> legend labels.
>
> The default method, using lgOrientation=Vertical would look
> something like:
>
> -- a
> -|- b
> ** c
> ~~ d
>
> I've tried using lgOrientation=Horizontal but that only flips the
> orientation of the legend markers and places the legend text below
> those.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Brandon Fisel
>
>
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