[ncl-talk] Can't figure out how to increase thickness of the lines in the legend
Dennis Shea
shea at ucar.edu
Fri Jan 22 10:12:41 MST 2016
Also, you are (I think) using Times-Roman font. I suggest that you use
Helvetica (sharper).
In your .hluresfile (in your home directory), add
! Font stuff
*appClass*Font : helvetica
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Ruksana,
> I see that you are setting lgres at gsLineThicknessF. Have you tried setting
> lgres at lgLineThicknessF instead?
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/lg.shtml#lgLineThicknessF
>
> If that does not fix the issue let ncl-talk know..
> Adam
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Ruksana Abedin <ruksana.abedin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to increase the thickness of the lines used as the indicators of
>> the data types (RCM, UoD, GPCC, etc.) within the legend. Otherwise, reader
>> can not see properly the legend and finds it hard to identify the line's
>> colour indicating for a specific data source.
>>
>> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Ruksana
>>
>>
>> ;*****************************************************
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/shea_util.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/time_axis_labels.ncl"
>> ;*****************************************************
>> begin
>> ;*****************************************************
>> ;read in data
>> ;*****************************************************
>> f0=addfile ("....../wah2_sas_1985_2007.part.LRBdesh.ymonmean_1_11.nc",
>> "r");
>> f = addfile("......./APHRO_LRBdesh_ppt_1985_2007_ymonmean_1_11.nc", "r")
>> f1 = addfile("......./
>> GPCC.precip.ymonmean_1_11.1985-2007.v6.360d.LRBdesh.nc","r")
>> f2 = addfile("......../UoD.precip.360d.ymonmean.1985_2007_LRBDesh.v301.nc
>> ","r")
>>
>> ;*****************************************************
>> ; parameters
>> ;*****************************************************
>>
>> PPT_mod = f0->field90(:,0,:,:)
>> PPT_mod = PPT_mod*86400
>>
>> PPT_obs = f->precip
>> PPT_obs1 = f1->precip/30
>> PPT_obs2 = f2->precip/3
>>
>> fldmean0 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_mod,1.0,1.0,1)
>> fldmean = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs,1.0,1.0,1)
>> fldmean1 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs1,1.0,1.0,1)
>> fldmean2 = wgt_areaave_Wrap(PPT_obs2,1.0,1.0,1)
>>
>> time = f0->time0
>> x = PPT_mod&time0
>> timax = dimsizes(time)-1
>>
>> ;--convert the time proleptic_gregorian calendar to UTC date
>> utc_date = cd_calendar(time,0)
>>
>> ;-- set date variable names
>>
>> year = tointeger(utc_date(:,0))
>> month = tointeger(utc_date(:,1))
>> day = tointeger(utc_date(:,2))
>> hour = tointeger(utc_date(:,3))
>> minute = tointeger(utc_date(:,4))
>> second = utc_date(:,5)
>>
>> ;-- write date as string (MM)
>> date_str_i = sprinti("%0.2i",month)
>>
>> ;-- create the time strings, plot every axis annotation
>> incr = 1
>> labels = (/date_str_i(0::incr)/)
>> labels = (/"J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N"/)
>>
>> ;-- set resources
>> res = True
>> res at trXMinF = time(0) ; time minimum on axis
>> res at trXMaxF = time(timax) ; time maximum on axis
>> res at tmXBMode = "Explicit" ; explicit time setting
>> res at tmXBValues = PPT_mod&time0(::incr) ; axis tick position
>> res at tmXBLabels = labels
>>
>>
>> colors = (/"blue","sky blue","yellow","orange"/)
>> lg_labels = (/"RCM","APHRODITE","GPCC","UoD"/)
>>
>> printVarSummary(time)
>> printVarSummary(PPT_mod)
>> printVarSummary(PPT_obs)
>> printVarSummary(PPT_obs1)
>>
>>
>> wks = gsn_open_wks("eps","annpptcycle")
>>
>> res =True
>> res at gsnDraw = False
>> res at gsnFrame = False
>> res at gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"
>>
>> res= True ; plot mods desired
>> res =True
>> res at gsnMaximize= True
>> res at gsnDraw = False
>> res at gsnFrame = False
>> res at gsnPaperOrientation = "portrait"
>>
>>
>> res= True ; plot mods desired
>> res at tiMainString = "Bangladesh with Larger Region"
>> res at tiYAxisString = "Precipitation (mm/day)"
>> res at tiXAxisString = "months"
>> res at xyLineThicknessF = (/6,5,5,5/)
>> res at trYMinF = 0.0
>> res at trYMaxF = 15.0
>>
>> res at xyLineColor = colors(0)
>> plot0 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean0,res)
>>
>> res at xyLineColor = colors(1)
>> plot1 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean,res)
>>
>> res at xyLineColor = colors(2)
>> plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean1,res)
>>
>> res at xyLineColor = colors(3)
>> plot3 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,fldmean2,res)
>>
>> overlay(plot0,plot1)
>> overlay(plot0,plot2)
>> overlay(plot0,plot3)
>>
>>
>> ; Attach a legend
>>
>> lgres = True
>> lgres at lgLineColors = colors
>> lgres at lgMonoItemType = True
>> lgres at lgItemType = "Lines"
>> lgres at lgMonoDashIndex = True
>> lgres at lgDashIndex = "SolidLine"
>> lgres at gsLineDashPattern = 0.
>> lgres at gsLineThicknessF = 5.
>> lgres at lgLabelFontHeightF = 0.25
>> lgres at lgBoxMinorExtentF = 0.25
>> lgres at vpWidthF = 0.25
>> lgres at vpHeightF = 0.25
>> lgres at pmLegendDisplayMode = "Always"
>> lgres at pmLegendWidthF = 0.6
>> lgres at pmLegendHeightF = 0.1
>> lgres at xyExplicitLabels = lg_labels
>> lgres at lgBoxMinorExtentF = 0.8
>> lgres at lgPerimOn = False
>> legend = gsn_create_legend(wks, 4, lg_labels, lgres)
>>
>> amres = True
>> amres at amJust = "BottomRight" ; Use bottom right corner
>> of box for determining its location.
>> amres at amOrthogonalPosF = -0.12
>> amres at amParallelPosF = -0.1
>>
>> annoid = gsn_add_annotation(plot0, legend, amres) ; add legend to plot
>>
>> draw(plot0)
>>
>> frame(wks)
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
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>
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