Re: how to make lines wider in legend
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- Subject: [mg107079] Re: how to make lines wider in legend
- From: Jan Baetens <jan.baetens at ugent.be>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 03:28:14 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Philip, From my experience I must say that the Legend-function has quite some shortcomings, though you get round this by wrapping a plot function, such as Listplot for visualizing your data, together with a Graphics doing the Legend, in a Show. Something like this should work: Show[ListPlot[data], Graphics[{*everything you need for a legend, such Polygon for framed legend, Text for the labels en Line or Point for showing the appropriate data labels next to the Point or Line*}]] By using Graphics for creating a legend you can embrace the power of the Graphics function for making nice legends! Succes, Jan On 2/1/2010 12:11 PM, Philip R. Schiff wrote: > Dear MathGroup, > > Basically, I have legends that look like > > - - - plot 1 > ___ plot 2 > > but I want them to be > > - - - - - - plot 1 > ______ plot 2 > > I see that this question was posed in 2001 and answered, but I don't really > understand the solution. Can it be explained for this bozo? I'm good with > structural programming but don't always follow the more esoteric Mathematica > commands (usually the "Apply") that he uses to generate the style table. > But all that aside, I figure out where in the solution > http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2001/Sep/msg00012.html > that he actually makes the lines to be wider. Ideally, this could become a > feature in a future version... > > Best, > Phil > > > > -- ir. Jan Baetens Ghent University Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control Coupure Links 653 B-9000 Gent Belgium jan.baetens at UGent.be http://users.ugent.be/~jbaetens/ tel: ++32 (0)9 264 59 31 fax: ++32 (0)9 264 62 20