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Re: Mathematica 7: PieChart: opacity of a sector label?

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• Subject: [mg93894] Re: [mg93878] Mathematica 7: PieChart: opacity of a sector label?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:06:10 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Wrap the label with an appropriate Style function.
PieChart[{0.3, 1 - 0.3},
    ChartLabels -> Placed[{Style[m1, Opacity[1]], ""}, "RadialCallout"],
    ChartStyle -> {Directive[Darker[Blue], Opacity[0.5]],
    Directive[Gray, Opacity[0.2]]},
    BaseStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12],
    ImageSize -> 200]

For several labels, do it individually or use 
Style[#,Opacity[1]]&/@theLabels.


PieChart[{0.3, 1 - 0.3},
  ChartLabels ->
   Placed[Style[#, Opacity[1]] & /@ {m1, m2}, "RadialCallout"],
  ChartStyle -> {Directive[Darker[Blue], Opacity[0.5]],
    Directive[Gray, Opacity[0.2]]},
  BaseStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12],
  ImageSize -> 200]

What surprises me, though, is that including the same Opacity directive 
in the BaseStyle does not seem to change the style of the Placed 
ChartLabels.

Gordon Robertson wrote:
> Could I ask for help with the following? In Mathematica 6, a sector's label was
> automatically dark (very readable) text, independent of the Opacity[] of its
> sector. In Mathematica 7, at this point I'm finding that a pie sector's label has the
> opacity of its sector. For example, the following has a pale blue sector
> with an 'm1' label -- but both the blue and the label have an opacity of
> 0.5. Putting Opacity[1] into the BaseStyle Directive does not change this.
> 
> PieChart[{0.3, 1 - 0.3}, 
> 
>  ChartLabels -> Placed[{m1, ""}, "RadialCallout"], 
> 
>  ChartStyle -> {
>   Directive[Darker[Blue], Opacity[0.5]],
>   Directive[Gray, Opacity[0.2]]}, 
> 
>  BaseStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12],
>  ImageSize -> 200]
> 
> I've studied the PieChart help documentation for some time without finding a
> way to declare the label as opaque i.e. dark. I'm probably simply not seeing
> what I need to see.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help. I'm on an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.5.
> 
> G

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  • Mathematica 7: PieChart: opacity of a sector label?
    • From: Gordon Robertson <grobertson@bcgsc.ca>