Isn't this a "horizontal bar" chart? Linda
-----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 6:29 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] overlapping xlabels in plot Could you plot it as a vertical bar chart? i.e. Category 1 XXXXXXXXXXXXX Category 2 XXXXXXX Category 3 XXXX Category 4 XXXXXXXXXX etc. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM, June Kim (김창준) <junea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > Yeah, I thought about it, but it doesn't apply in this case. The > xlabels are disparate categories sorted by their frequencies. ... -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm