Re: Legend Format

From: Adam Phillips <asphilli_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 11:08:18 MST

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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