Re: size control in panel plot

Hi Carl,

I wish there was a better way. It's certainly possible to set various font height resources in your own ".hluresfile", but these apply to when a plot is created.

Once you call gsn_panel, all of these font heights will be resized along with the plot. Also, any font heights set with a "gsn" type resource will not be affected by anything in a .hluresfile, because they are calculated programmatically inside the gsn_xxx script itself.

We have a few tickets open on giving the user more control over font sizes. You are certainly not the first person to ask for this kind of functionality. I will add your request to one of them.

--Mary

On Nov 7, 2013, at 5:58 AM, Carl Schreck <cjschrec@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Follow-on question... I almost always set all the fontheights manually because they change so much when you do paneling. So I usually have something like this:
>
> ;; ...standardize the font sizes
> fontHeightF = 0.02
> res@cnInfoLabelFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@gsnLeftStringFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@gsnRightStringFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@lbTitleFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@lbLabelFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@tiMainFontHeightF = fontHeightF * 1.3
> res@tiYAxisFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@tiXAxisFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@tmXBLabelFontHeightF = fontHeightF
> res@tmYLLabelFontHeightF = fontHeightF
>
> Is there a simpler way?
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Kyle Griffin <ksgriffin2@wisc.edu> wrote:
> I would suggest using
>
> res@vpWidthF = 0.3
>
> to narrow the plot on the right. The value can be anything between 0 and 1, and apply it to the resource explicitly for the XY panel's resources.
>
> For the font heights, I would suggest manually setting both sets of resources. The font height resource needs to be explicitly set for both plots in order to be effective. If others have better suggestions here, I would go with that as I personally haven't had problems with mis-matched text heights before.
>
>
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> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:06 AM, H.Dang <danghy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear NCLers,
>
> I have two graphs in a panel plot (please see the attached file). My question is how to make the one on the right side slimmer, and the left one wider. In addition, the mark sizes on the two graphs are different. e.g., the "45S" on the left one is larger. But these sizes are controlled by the same setting in my code:
>
> res@tmXBLabelFontHeightF = 0.019 ;0.008 ;height of tick mark label
>
> Thank you!
>
> Hongyan
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