<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Wei,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The xxYYYYFormat resources don&#39;t work like the formatting in sprintf or sprinti.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please see this tickmark formatting example image, which shows what the different strings are you can use:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/tm_8_lg.png" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Images/tm_8_lg.png</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You can also read this description:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/format_spec.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/format_spec.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I created a new example, since we didn&#39;t have any that use this resource:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/contourLab.shtml#ex8">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/contourLab.shtml#ex8<br></a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">This example uses:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">  res@cnLineLabelFormat    = &quot;0@;*.3f&quot;                      ; Only one value after decimal point</pre><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Wei Huang <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:whuang@univ-wea.com" target="_blank">whuang@univ-wea.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, there,<br>
<br>
I am doing contour lines, and want to label those lines properly.<br>
I need the line label&#39;s to have one decimal, so I set.<br>
res@cnLineLabelFormat      = &quot;%6.1f&quot;<br>
But it seems it did not work well, but only have the integers.<br>
<br>
Here is the part of the resource:<br>
<br>
   res@cnMinLevelValF            = 1010.0<br>
  res@cnMaxLevelValF            = 1020.0<br>
  res@cnLineLabelInterval     = 1<br>
  res@cnLevelSpacingF           = 0.5<br>
  res@cnLineLabelFormat      = &quot;%6.1f&quot;<br>
<br>
What I hope to get the line labels to have:<br>
1015.0, 1015.5, 1016.0<br>
Not (as it happens now):<br>
1015 1015 1016.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Wei Huang<br>
<a href="mailto:whuang@univ-wea.com" target="_blank">whuang@univ-wea.com</a><br>
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