Re: [Plplot-general] Line break for plcont

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2022-01-18 12:19+0900 koi...@ya... wrote:

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> There is one option I wish I could have in plplot: making a linebreak to put labels in between.
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> To be precise, there may be two options. One is, make a line, put a white box on the line, then put numbers in.
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> The other option is, literally break a line (draw two lines with some space) and put numbers in between.
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> (Both look good to me).
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> Hopefully anyone can spare some time to consider adding it or tell me how ?

Hi Shozee:

I am answering you on the assumption your subject line should have been "line break for PLplot"
since you did not mention plcont anywhere inside your email.

If that assumption is correct I suggest you take a look at pllegend
which was designed to give users tremendous control over how text (and
graphics) are arranged within a legend (within a plot).  Of course,
that enormous capability makes its API complex, but check the
[documentation of that
API](http://plplot.org/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.15.0/pllegend.html)
to see whether that API might provide exactly what you need.  That API
is demonstrated in a simplistic way in [example
4](http://plplot.org/examples.php?demo=04) and [example
26](http://plplot.org/examples.php?demo=26) which are useful to show
how to turn everything off other than the small subset of that API
that you need.  That API is demonstrated in a more comprehensive way
in [example 33](http://plplot.org/examples.php?demo=33).

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Alan
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