<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Barry,<br><br></div>without seeing more context of your script, I'm not sure if there's a better way to do what you want. But you could certainly prepend a space to the cities; supposing the names are in an array like:<br><br>cities = (/ "acbd", "efgh", "ijkl"/) <br></div><div>print(cities)<br><br></div>...then...<br><br></div>labels = " " + cities<br></div>print(labels)<br><br></div>Hope that helps,<br></div>Rick<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@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:<div><br></div><div>You can see in the attached png that the name of the city is too close to the number.</div><div><br></div><div>I read the names from a file, so I am unable to manually add space at the beginning of each name.</div><div><br></div><div>I found a suggestion on the ncl pages, but it doesn't seem to affect the position of the number. The suggested code is in bold below.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txres <span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= True <span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; Set up </span><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s2">text</span><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"> resources</span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txres@txFontHeightF = 0.010</span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txres@txJust<span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= "CenterLeft"</span></p><p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1">
</span></p><p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"> <b>txres@amParallelPosF = 0.5</b></span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txt2res <span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= True <span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; Set up </span><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s2">text</span><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"> resources</span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txt2res@txFontHeightF = 0.010</span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txt2res@txJust<span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= "CenterRight"</span></p>
<p class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-p1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-s1"><span class="m_8182210415613529370gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <b> </b></span><b>txt2res@amParallelPosF = -0.5</b></span></p><div>Thank you for your suggestions.</div><div>P.S If there is no good way to do this, is there, perhaps, a way to add space at the beginning of the each city string?</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div>-- <br><div class="m_8182210415613529370gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br>US <a href="tel:(914)%20432-3108" value="+19144323108" target="_blank">914 432 3108</a><br></div></div></div>
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