Re: Rotated text labels
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg106496] Re: Rotated text labels
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:50:53 -0500 (EST)
- References: <hik92j$6ou$1@smc.vnet.net>
Am 13.01.2010 11:59, schrieb koringkriek: > 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? I think the recommended way to do something like this would be using Inset: Show[ Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}], Graphics[Inset[ Style[" Text ", Medium, FontFamily -> "Helvetica"], {1, 0.5}, {0, 0}, 1, {1/2, 1/Sqrt[2]} ]] ] or Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, Epilog -> Inset[ Style[" Text ", Medium, FontFamily -> "Helvetica"], {1, 0.5}, {0, 0}, 1, {1/2, 1/Sqrt[2]} ] ] you might want to look up the various arguments of inset an their meanings in the documentation... hth, albert