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Re: Rotated text labels

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• Subject: [mg106481] Re: [mg106462] Rotated text labels
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:47:45 -0500 (EST)
• References: <20469344.1263381684048.JavaMail.root@n11>

Do the rotation in the Text statement.

Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10},
 Epilog -> {Text[
    Style[" Text ", 14, FontFamily -> "Helvetica"], {1, 0.5}, {0, 
     0}, {1, 3}]}]


David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/  


From: koringkriek [mailto:astronerma at gmail.com] 

Hi,
I want to add text labels on my plots and some of them need to be
rotated. Usually I do it this way, eg.

Show[
Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,10}],
Graphics[Rotate[Text[Style[" Text ",Medium,FontFamily->"Helvetica" ],
{1,0.5}],Pi/4]]
]

But as you can see, the label is distorted. This is not the case if
the aspect ratio of the plot is set to automatic:

Show[
Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,10}, AspectRatio->Automatic],
Graphics[Rotate[Text[Style[" Text ",Medium,FontFamily->"Helvetica" ],
{1,0.5}],Pi/4]]
]

But it is very rare that I can (want to) set the AspectRatio option to
Automatic in my plots.

Is there any way to get the rotated text labels that are not
distorted?

Cheers
Anna