[ncl-talk] Not English city names

[Barry Lynn]

Hi:

Thank you for your suggestion.

Barry

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> If its for a few one-off plots, you'd probably have better luck using a
> graphic-arts tool in post-processing (e.g., gimp) to paste in your city
> names.
>
> If its for production plotting, then its likely possible to do what you
> need, but it would take a great deal of experimentation and specialized
> techniques.  Examples 9 and 11 at the following link show how to
> incorporated imagery into a plot:
>
> http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/rgbacolor.shtml
>
> Note that a crucial step in these examples is converting whatever image
> format you are using into NetCDF. Rather than mess with individual PNGs for
> each city/location, I would be inclined to come up with a single PNG that
> is a base map for my region of interest and try to georeference that, as
> per example 11.
>
> Hope that helps, and good luck!
> Rick
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Would it be possible to previously make png rectangles with the name
>> inside, and overlay it on the map, like we do regular city names?
>>
>> I am not sure how one would get the right sized rectangle, but perhaps
>> this is possible as well.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Barry,
>>>
>>> NCL doesn't have special font tables for foreign languages unfortunately.
>>>
>>> Mateus da Silva Teixeira from IPMet provided a nice example for creating
>>> words with special characters, however, like the umlaut.  Please see
>>> example text_14.ncl:
>>>
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/text.shtml#ex14
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I do not see anything on-line.
>>>>
>>>> Can one create a city name in a foreign language?
>>>>
>>>> If not, can one create a PNG (or like) and overlay it at the correct
>>>> location?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
>>>> Senior Lecturer,
>>>> The Institute of the Earth Science,
>>>> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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>>
>> --
>> Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
>> Senior Lecturer,
>> The Institute of the Earth Science,
>> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
>> Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
>> Tel: 972 547 231 170
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-- 
Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer,
The Institute of the Earth Science,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: 972 547 231 170
Fax: (972)-25662581

C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD
Weather and Climate Focus
http://weather-it-is.com
Jerusalem, Israel
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