<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks Vandhna, for answering this question.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Rabah, as an FYI, you can see all the font tables at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>If you click on any row of this font table, you will see all the characters for that table. Any character from any of our font tables can be used with NhlNewMarker as Vandhna pointed out.</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>My favorite font tables to use for markers are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font35.png">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font35.png</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font36.png">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font36.png</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font37.png">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/font37.png</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>I like them because they contain some filled markers, which look better than the hollow ones.</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style>To see some examples of using NhlNewMarker, see:</div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/xy.shtml#ex4">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/xy.shtml#ex4</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/scatter.shtml#ex2">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/scatter.shtml#ex2</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/scatter.shtml#ex8">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/scatter.shtml#ex8</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Vandhna Nair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.vandhna@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.vandhna@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Rabah,<div><br></div><div>I used this to create filled triangles for one of my plots:</div><div><br></div><div><div>mstring1 = "u"</div><div>fontnum1 = 34</div><div>xoffset1 = 0.0</div><div>yoffset1 = 0.0</div><div>ratio1 = 1.0</div><div>size1 = 1.0</div><div>angle1 = 0.0</div><div> </div><div>Tm_index = NhlNewMarker(wks, mstring1, fontnum1, xoffset1, yoffset1, ratio1, size1, angle1)</div></div><div><br></div><div>So Tm_index (or any name you prefer) becomes your new marker. You can adjust the marker size later in your script, just like you do for the predefined markers.</div><div><br></div><div>More info. here:</div><div><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlNewMarker.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlNewMarker.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>V.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Rabah Hachelaf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hachelaf@sca.uqam.ca" target="_blank">hachelaf@sca.uqam.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi NCL Users ,<div><br></div><div>My question is simple who to fill in the predefined markers (<a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/markers.png" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Images/markers.png</a>) there is only circles filled in : </div><div><br></div><div>i want to use a filled triangle.</div><div>the script blow displays an unfilled triangle.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div> pmres = True</div><div> pmres@gsMarkerColor = "White"</div><div> pmres@gsMarkerIndex = 7</div><div> pmres@gsMarkerSizeF = 0.01</div><div> gsn_polymarker(wks,mp,12.00,-4.67,pmres)</div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Rabah.</div></font></span></div>
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