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Re: Using colored text in PlotLabel

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• Subject: [mg120714] Re: Using colored text in PlotLabel
• From: "Chris Degnen" <degnen at cwgsy.net>
• Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 02:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
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You can use Row to join styled strings:

ListPlot[{Table[Random[], {50}]},
  PlotRange -> All, Joined -> True, AxesLabel -> {"t (ps)", "(kcal/mol)"},
  PlotLabel -> Row[{"Total Energy\n",
      Style["Red: Velocity-Verlet\n", Red],
      Style[ "Green:Leapfrog\n", Green],
      Style["Blue: Accurate Velocity-Verlet\n", Blue]}],
  PlotStyle -> {Pink, Red, Green, Darker[Green], Cyan, Blue},
  ImageSize -> 400]


Robert Rosenbaum wrote:
>
> This does the trick:
> 
> Plot[x^2, {x, -2, 2},
> PlotLabel -> Style["Hello", Blue] Style["\nHello", Red]]
> 
> although I'm sure that there's a better way to combine the two strings.  
> For some reason, <> doesn't seem to work on Styled strings.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Andrew DeYoung wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I often use Mathematica 7 to display data, using ListPlot.  Since I
>> end up creating plots containing lots of colored lines, it would be
>> helpful if I could color the text that I display above my plots using
>> PlotLabel.  Do you know if there is a way to do this without having to
>> resort to the Plot Legends Package, which I sometimes find somewhat
>> cumbersome to use (because I often end up having to spend a lot of
>> time positioning the legend so that it does not cover my plot lines)?
>>
>> If you have time, I have plotted an example plot of mine here:
>> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/adeyoung/august2/august2.jpg
>>
>> In that plot, I have created the title using PlotLabel.  Specifically,
>> I used the following Mathematica commands:
>>
>> ListPlot[
>> {{energies1eq[[1]], fp*energies1eq[[7]]}\[Transpose], {20 +
>> energies1md[[1]], fp*energies1md[[7]]}\[Transpose],
>> {energies2eq[[1]], fp*energies2eq[[7]]}\[Transpose], {20 +
>> energies2md[[1]], fp*energies2md[[7]]}\[Transpose],
>> {energies3eq[[1]], fp*energies3eq[[7]]}\[Transpose], {20 +
>> energies3md[[1]], fp*energies3md[[7]]}\[Transpose]},
>> PlotRange->All,Joined->True,AxesLabel->{"t (ps)","(kcal/
>> mol)"},PlotLabel->"Total Energy\nRed: Velocity-Verlet\nGreen: Leapfrog
>> \nBlue: Accurate Velocity-Verlet\n",PlotStyle-
>>> {Pink,Red,Green,Darker[Green],Cyan,Blue},ImageSize->imgSize]
>>
>> Do you know how to make my title that says, for example, "Red: ",
>> actually red?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your time!
>>
>> Andrew DeYoung
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>>
> 
> 
> Best,
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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