<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi Adam,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Since all the 10 lines are supplied to a single gsn_csm_xy which has only one "res", how can I assign a different res@xyLineDashSegLenF for each line?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Can I supply it as an array? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Is that possible?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Tabish<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br> <span>Bailrigg</span>, <span>Lancaster</span>, <br><span>LA1 4YW</span>, <span>United Kingdom</span></span></font><br></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:34, Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tabish,</div><div dir="ltr">Yes, see:<div><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml#xyLineDashSegLenF" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/xy.shtml#xyLineDashSegLenF</a><br></div><div>Try a value around .5. The higher the value the more space between labels on an individual line. </div><div>Adam</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:26 PM Tabish Ansari <<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com" target="_blank">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks, it worked.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The only issue now is that since I have 10 lines within a single xy plot, it leads to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">several labels overlapping with each other because they're labelled exactly at the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">same length intervals.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Long shot but any chances that the user can control this spacing where the labels are</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">written out for each line?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Tabish<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7401168515937033679m_-1661670243876889549gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br> <span>Bailrigg</span>, <span>Lancaster</span>, <br><span>LA1 4YW</span>, <span>United Kingdom</span></span></font><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:16, Adam Phillips <<a href="mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu" target="_blank">asphilli@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Tabish,<div>A good find with <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/xy_14.ncl" target="_blank">xy_14.ncl</a>, but it looks to me like xyExplicitLabels allows one to put in an array of strings. Thus, did you try something like this: res@xyExplicitLabels = (/"Line 1","Line 2"/)</div><div>Adam</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 2:54 PM Tabish Ansari <<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com" target="_blank">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I think there's an example on the ncl webpage : xy_14.ncl</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">but it only explains how to label a single line. I have got 10 lines</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">in my plot and want to label them as run1, run2, run3.....run10, for example.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Tabish<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7401168515937033679m_-1661670243876889549m_-5694440548524030542m_3061316730497056737gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br> <span>Bailrigg</span>, <span>Lancaster</span>, <br><span>LA1 4YW</span>, <span>United Kingdom</span></span></font><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 21:01, Tabish Ansari <<a href="mailto:tabishumaransari@gmail.com" target="_blank">tabishumaransari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I'm creating a time-series plot with 10 curves within it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">It is difficult to select 10 different colors for these 10 curves</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">and then create a corresponding legend, which will also take a lot of</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">extra space in the plot.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Is there a way I can just name these curves as a break in them, just like</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">when you use numbered contours in a contour plot?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Tabish<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7401168515937033679m_-1661670243876889549m_-5694440548524030542m_3061316730497056737m_-8286329889005130897gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tabish U Ansari<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">PhD student, Lancaster Environment Center<br></span></font></div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Lancaster Univeristy<br> <span>Bailrigg</span>, <span>Lancaster</span>, <br><span>LA1 4YW</span>, <span>United Kingdom</span></span></font><br></div></div></div></div>
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