Re: Legend Format

From: Brandon Fisel <bjfisel_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 11:42:48 MST

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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