What about this pd 'reset' pd 'labels 0 1' pd i.10 pd 'text 100 90 Hello World1';'text 140 60 Hello World2';'text 180 30 Hello World3' pd 'show'
It seems rather similar to http://jsfiddle.net/grVFk/4252/ R.E. Boss > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com > [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] Namens June Kim (???) > Verzonden: vrijdag 27 april 2012 17:35 > Aan: Programming forum > Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] overlapping xlabels in plot > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Andrew Nikitin <ns...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > From: June Kim (???) <junea...@gmail.com> > > > > > > That's too bad. How is plot's drawtext implemented in the low level? It > > > seems like to call 11!:0 y. Is there any possibility to implement a new > > > feature easily? > > > > Define "easily". > > For exmaple, you can place labels with > > > > plot i.10 > > pd 'textc 100 20 asdf' > > pd 'show' > > > > and adjust values of 100 and 20 appropriately. It will even preserve > > relative > > position if you scale your form a little bit. Not sure how to do rotation, > > though. > > > > > I found a way to do the rotation. As a starting point, > > pd 'reset' > pd 'labels 0 1' > pd i.10 > pd 'textfont Arial 9 angle900' > pd 'text 100 0 Hello World' > pd 'show' > > Now I need to increase the bottom margin to make space for rotated xlabels. > > BTW, do not be too bent on generating everything with J. You can save > > properly > > resized plot into bmp and then edit category names there the way you want. > > If > > your categories are same all the time and only data changes -- save the > > bottom portion of your plot into another bmp and use it with subsequent > > plot > > of same size and layout. > > > > Yeah. Thanks for reminding me of good heuristics : do not try to use your > favorite tool for everything. > > > > > > > That's a clever idea, but looking at a 90 degrees rotated histogram is > > > unnatural to many people. :( > > > > Reading 90 degrees rotated text on x axis is also unnatural to many people. > > There is no best solution, you have to make some hard choices here. > > > > You are right. I have to choose between rotated bars and rotated xlabels if > I want to follow rotation approach. > > Thanks. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
