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Re: Label Display in 2-D Plots?

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  • Subject: [mg13735] Re: Label Display in 2-D Plots?
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.cc.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:38:25 -0400
  • References: <6r110o$fkd@smc.vnet.net>
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Stefan Jeglinski wrote in message <6r110o$fkd at smc.vnet.net>...
>I do not want the axes labels to be positioned at the ends of the axes.
>There seem to be no options here. I have tried frame labels as well.
>The frame label which appears below the horizontal axis is
>satisfactory, but I want the vertical axis label to be written
>vertically, as is common in published work. I seem to be not able to do
>this with frame labels. In addition, I find the frame label along the
>vertical axis to be too close to the numbers, but I can't nudge it out.
>Finally, I tried making text objects but I cannot seem to be able to
>superimpose them onto graphics already created.


Stefan,

Here are some experiments that may help. You will find information about
the various objects used in the Help browser.

1) Vertical "y-axis"label, half way up the axis.

(Default value of option RotateLabel is True)

Show[Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}],
  Text["y axis",Scaled[{-.12,.5}],{0,0},{0,1}]}], Axes->True,
PlotRegion ->{{.15,1},{0,1}} (*create space for label*) ]

2) Vertical label half way up left of frame.

Show[
Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}]}],
Frame->True,
FrameLabel ->"y axis"
]

3) Nudging the label in 2) away from the axis and coloring "y" red

Type  y axis  in an input cell; color y red (menu > Format > TextColor)
select all of the text in the cell and use menu > Edit > Input > Nudge
Up (or keyboard equivalent) to nudge upwards.

Look at the cell exression:

Cell[BoxData[
    AdjustmentBox[
      RowBox[{
        StyleBox["y",
          FontColor->RGBColor[1, 0, 0]], " ", "axis"}],
      BoxMargins->{{0, 0}, {1.5, -1.5}},
      BoxBaselineShift->-1.5]], "Input"]

The crucial part is AdjustmentBox[..]

Define

txt = AdjustmentBox[
      RowBox[{
        StyleBox["y",
          FontColor->RGBColor[1, 0, 0]], " ", "axis"}],
      BoxMargins->{{0, 0}, {1.5, -1.5}},
      BoxBaselineShift->-1.5]]

Look at

Show[
Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}]}],
Frame->True,
FrameLabel ->DisplayForm[txt ],
PlotRegion ->{{.05,.97},{0,1}} (*create space for label*) ]

4) Adding text

Show[Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}]}], Graphics[Text["text",
{.5,.5}]]]

Show[Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}], Text["text", {.5,.5}]}]]

Show[Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 1}}]}], Epilog ->Text["text", {.3,.5}]]


Allan,

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