[ncl-talk] Changing font height

[Barry Lynn]

Hi:

I found it hard to find an exact point where FontheightF was being set in
WRFUserARW.ncl.

Instead, I did what "WRF-NCL" did for the Title. I modified it this way in
both the InitTime and ValidTime locations.

  if( opts at InitTime ) then
    InitTime = "Init: " + model_start_time
    txt1 = create "InitTime" textItemClass wks
      "txString"      : InitTime
      "*txFontHeightF" : font_height*1.5*

This morning, I do see this line:

font_height = get_res_value_keep(opts,"FontHeightF",0.01).

Perhaps, I needed to modify this line, but then I would have enlarged the
Title as well.

Barry

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> This is a good question. I had to dig around in WRFUserARW.ncl to look for
> the answer.
>
> I think setting "FontHeightF" should do it. Try a value like 0.01, and
> then increase or decrease it by small amounts as necessary. This apparently
> is an unadvertised resource and I'm not positive it will work.
>
> If you find that you are wanting to customize your WRF plots quite a bit,
> then you may want to consider using gsn_csm_xxx functions to do the
> plotting instead of wrf_xxxx.
>
> The wrf_xxxx functions are really meant to be used "as-is" to quickly
> produce plots that can fit on an 8-1/2" x 11" paper.
>
> To see some examples of plotting WRF data with gsn_csm_xxx functions, see:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/wrfgsn.shtml
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I have tried figuring out how to do this by accessing the most obvious
>> pages, but I can't see how to change the height of "FieldTitle," and
>> "UnitLabel."
>>
>> I get a resources not found for the bolded lines.
>>
>>   opts_ic_cg at FieldTitle           = time_var
>>   *opts_ic_cg at gsnStringFontHeightF = 0.025*
>>   opts_ic_cg at UnitLabel            = "10 minute ETLN Lightning Rate"
>>   *opts_ic_cg at UnitLabelHeightF           = 0.015*
>>   opts_ic_cg at cnLevelSelectionMode = "ExplicitLevels"
>>   opts_ic_cg at cnFillOn             = True
>>
>>
>> --
>> Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
>> Senior Lecturer,
>> The Institute of the Earth Science,
>> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
>> Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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>>
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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
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http://weather-it-is.com
Jerusalem, Israel
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