Re: 3rd Y Axis over 2nd

Perhaps try setting gsnMaximize to True.
 -dave

On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Paula Doubrawa Moreira wrote:

> Thanks, Mary!
>
> However, even in your dummy script, if I change vpWidthF to 0.7 it goes off the paper. How can I fix that?
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> Thanks again,
> Paula
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> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the script. I was able to create some dummy data and generate a similar plot with the small labels on the righmost Y axis.
>
> The issue, which is a bug in gsn_csm_xy3, is that it wasn't taking into account that you might resize the plot, and it wasn't correctly setting the font sizes for these labels.
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> I believe the fix is to simply add:
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> res3@tmEqualizeXYSizes = True
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> Which will tell NCL to fix the font sizes.
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> I don't think you need to set the tmXXLabelFontHeightF resources, unless you really want these fonts to be larger.
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> Also, I don't think you should have to set vpXF, as internally, this plot should get resized to fit on the page.
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> Finally, if you want to get rid of those trailing 0's in the middle Y axis, set:
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> res2@tmYRFormat = "f"
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>
> I've attached the dummy script I created so you can compare.
>
> --Mary
>
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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Paula Doubrawa Moreira wrote:
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>> Thanks, Mary!
>>
>> The amOrthogonalPosF resource did work for that. The axis labels font size is however, was still different from the other ones so I just used tmYRLabelFontHeightF.
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>> Now if I want to make the plot wider (vpWidthF = 0.7 and vpHeightF = 0.4) then it just goes off the page and the third axis disappears completely. I've tried setting wkOrientation, as well as wkPaperHeightF and wkPaperWidthF but can't fix that. What am I missing there?
>>
>> The script is attached. The plots illustrate different vpWidthF values. I'm not sending the files, because I open 120 files to generate that plot!
>>
>> Paula
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>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Paula,
>>
>> For future reference, if you are having problems with a particular routine (in this case, gsn_csm_xy3), then one thing you might try is to go to:
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>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/
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>> and click on the "functions/procedures" link near the very top.
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>> This will give you a list of all the functions and procedures that are called by a particular example.
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>> You can search for "gsn_csm_xy3" on that page, and you'll see that examples xy_19.ncl and xy_27.ncl use this function. Click on the part in parentheses ("XY plots") and you can then look at the description for these examples.
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>> Long story short: example xy_19.ncl talks about the same issue that I think you're having, and recommends using the "amOrthogonalPosF" resource to scoot that rightmost axis over.
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>> However, the gsn_csm_xy3 routine should have been able to figure this out. If you can provide your full script and data, I can take look.
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>> As for the second issue, I'm not sure. It would help to see your script. It looks like a case of the "plot manager" trying to make the font smaller because it thinks they are too large for some reason. I'm hoping that if you are able to move that axis over, then the fonts will readjust themselves.
>>
>> --Mary
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>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Paula Doubrawa Moreira wrote:
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>>> Hi, all-
>>>
>>> can anyone help me fix this plot? I've looked all over the place for a resource that would offset the third Y axis, I don't know why it's being drawn over the second one.
>>> As you can see, I have used tiYAxisOffsetXF to offset the title (v-component of wind) but the axis itself is on top of the title of the second axis (Temperature).
>>>
>>> The only resources I'm setting for both the second and third axes are trYMaxF, trYMinF, xyDashPatterns and xyLineColor. Why are they so different?
>>>
>>> I'm using gsn_csm_xy3.
>>>
>>> Thank you!!!
>>>
>>>
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>>> Paula Doubrawa Moreira
>>> Graduate Student - Research Assistant
>>> International Arctic Research Center
>>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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>> Paula Doubrawa Moreira
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>> International Arctic Research Center
>> University of Alaska Fairbanks
>> <lines_3vars_prob.ncl><vpWidth_0.5.tiff><vpWidth_0.7.tiff>
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> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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