Another idea is not to show every label so as to provide more room for the ones you are showing. This works fine for numbers or dates, but not so well for disparate categories.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Andrew Nikitin <ns...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> From: June Kim (???) <junea...@gmail.com> >> When there are overlapping xlabels in plot, what are the options to resolve >> this situation? >> >> Common solutions are 1) rotating the xlabels by 90(or 45) degrees, 2) >> staggering labels[1], 3) making the graph big enough so that the labels >> don't overlap, 4) abbreviate all x labels and provide a legend for them. >> > > 1 and 2 is out of the question, since both are not supported by the plot (I > live in J6.02, not sure whether the new package has further development). > This leaves you pretty much with 3 or 4. > I also use something of 1.1 -- if a category has long labels, I place them on > Y axis, this has effect of labels being perpendicular to the axis and > occupying less space along the axis. > > I am not sure staggering is such a good idea. The axis in the exmaple in the > link does not look easy to read. But maybe there is more than one thing wrong > with that exmaple and has nothing to do with staggering per se. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
