Re: Minor adjustments to a panel plot

Hi Marston,
To be clear, I advised you to set tiYAxisOn = False (in the plot
resource list), and not tiXAxisOn.. If you are setting tiYAxisOn =
False, and still are not seeing the desired results please go ahead and
send the script to ncl-talk..
Adam

On 08/27/2013 08:32 AM, Marston Johnston wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> I take it this tiXAxisOn is part of the options for the single plots
> and not the panel itself?
> I tried as you suggested but to no avail.
>
> Would you like to see the code?
>
> /M
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu
> <mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi Marston,
> In panel example 6 gsnPanelXWhiteSpacePercent was set in the resP
> (=panel) resource list.. Are you saying that you set the same
> resource to 0 in the panel resource list and you are still not
> getting rid of enough white space? If so, try setting tiYAxisOn=
> False (tells NCL to not allocate space for the y-axis title) in
> your plot resource list to see if that frees up any further space.
>
> If you still are not getting the desired results let NCL talk know..
> Adam
>
> On Aug 27, 2013, at 1:38, Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com
> <mailto:shejo284@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Thanks for the tips. I found the panel plot page but got a bit
>> lost in the many examples. I got all but the white space to work.
>> In the example, the resP variable is set to False, but that is
>> not a good option for me as I would like to do other things with
>> the plots than simply remove the white space. Setting the
>> percentage of whitespace in the x-axis direction to 0 didn't give
>> the desired results.
>>
>> /M
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu
>> <mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marston,
>> Whenever I have a question related to paneling I will first
>> take a look at the paneling examples page located off of the
>> examples page here: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/
>> ("Panel plots", located along the left side of page 1/2 down.)
>> Of course not everything is covered with the examples, but I
>> usually find what I need on that page. The answers for your
>> 1st and 4th questions can be found on that page.
>>
>>
>> 1.) I would like the colorbar to be lower so that the label
>> on the X-axis (bottom) to be plotted and seen.
>> You should set pmLabelbarOrthogonalPosF in your panel
>> resource list. See example #21 here:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/panel.shtml#ex21
>>
>>
>> 2.) How do I label the longitude (x-axis) similarly to the
>> latitude (y-axis) label, i.e., (-10W 0 10E)?
>> You will want to set tmXBMode = "Explicit", and then set
>> tmXBValues = (/-10,0,10/) and tmXBLabels =
>> (/"10W","0E","10E"/). This example (#2) modifies the x-axis
>> labels for a timeseries plot, but the usage of the above
>> resources is the same:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/tickmarks.shtml#ex2
>> or, see example #6 here:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/mptick.shtml#ex6
>>
>>
>> 3.) How do I increase the spacing between the
>> gsnLeft/Center/RightString (s) and the top axis?
>> gsnLeftStringOrthogonalPosF /
>> gsnCenterStringOrthogonalPosF / gsnRightStringOrthogonalPosF
>> To see an example of their use, see example 3 here:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/raster.shtml#ex3
>>
>>
>> 4.) How do I reduce the whitespace between the plots?
>> gsnPanelXWhiteSpacePercent
>> See example #6 here:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/panel.shtml#ex6
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On 08/26/2013 09:59 AM, Marston Johnston wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make a few minor adjustments to the attached
>>> panel plot, but to no avail. I'm not sure where to look.
>>>
>>> 1.) I would like the colorbar to be lower so that the label
>>> on the X-axis (bottom) to be plotted and seen.
>>> 2.) How do I label the longitude (x-axis) similarly to the
>>> latitude (y-axis) label, i.e., (-10W 0 10E)?
>>> 3.) How do I increase the spacing between the
>>> gsnLeft/Center/RightString (s) and the top axis?
>>> 4.) How do I reduce the whitespace between the plots?
>>>
>>> I've included the code and the plot I currently have.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> /M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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