Re: [Plplot-general] Text instead of numbers along the scales?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-01-12 17:57+0100 Oliver Bandel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to have such a thing as a diagram,
> But I dont' know how to do it.
>
> Because I want to have possibly 20 texts
> (and maybe on two lines, or on very long lines),
> I need a possibility for changing the character size of the
> texts / labels. I also need some advice in what functions to use
> for the texts. Is it pltext()? I didn't found a way on
> changing the char-sizes.

Use plschr
(http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.8.0/plschr.html).

> Also I think about 3D versions, because I have more than one of
> theese diagrams like above, that I want to display!
> There the text also have to be used instead of numbers at the scales.
> Any ideas on that?

For 3D character strings use plptex3 as demonstrated by example 28
(http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/demo28.php).

Good luck with PLplot!

Alan
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