RE: Setting X-Y sizes of Excel plots

1999-09-01 Thread Lufkin Brad
Unfortunately, there is no way to control the size of Excel graphs other than with the mouse. Even Visual Basic for Applications (which allows almost total programmatic control of an Excel workbook) does not permit this. Through VBA, you can control almost every aspect of a graph, including titl

Re: Italian Hours

1999-09-01 Thread Mac Oglesby
September 1, 1999 Hello Roger, Thanks for your note. Judging from your other sundials, you will create a lovely piece. Please send me a picture when/if it comes to pass. If I was ever aware of a sidereal time option suggested by Karl Schwarzinger, I've forgotten the details. Can you refres

Darkness

1999-09-01 Thread Roger Bailey
At 07:14 AM 9/1/99 -0400, Mac Oglesby wrote: > >I wonder what it would take to make it a sundial showing hours until dark. >That is, how would the time of "dark" (relative to sunset) be determined? Hi Mac, This is an excellent challenge. First, we have to define "dark". Bowditch defines Civil

Sidereal Sundials

1999-09-01 Thread Roger Bailey
At 07:14 AM 9/1/99 -0400, Mac Oglesby wrote: > >If I was ever aware of a sidereal time option suggested by Karl >Schwarzinger, I've forgotten the details. Can you refresh my memory? Of >course, one could simply label a "normal" hours to sunset sundial as >showing sidereal hours to sunset, since

Setting X-Y sizes of Excel plots

1999-09-01 Thread Rudolf Hooijenga
Dear All On The List,   In Microsoft's Excel I can easily plot X-Y pairs, so that I can lay out, for example, an analemmic dial. By fiddling with the mouse I can stretch the graph until it looks about right. See attachement (5 kB, hope that's ok).   It would be nice, though, if I could just i

Setting X-Y sizes of Excel plots

1999-09-01 Thread Rudolf Hooijenga
Ops... forgot the attachment. This is what I meant. It looks about allright, but can I specify the X and Y axis lengths? Regards, Rudolf   Attachment converted: MAC Hard Disk:ana.gif (GIFf/JVWR) (0001A3BB)

Re: A dial by any other name...

1999-09-01 Thread Rudolf Hooijenga
Hello all, I don't know if I have asked this before, but anyway, Tony made me think of it again. Is there anywhere available a word list for sundial topics? The usual Internet search engines are less efficient for this one, for lack of throughput? What I need most (for my English-language summar

A dial by any other name....the response.

1999-09-01 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers. Some time ago I requested List members to send me the word/s for 'sundial' in as many languages as possible with the promise that I would publish the result via the List when complete - I was unaware of the list already prepared by Daniel Roth at the time. An unedited

Re: A dial by any other name...

1999-09-01 Thread Frederick W. Sawyer III
From: Frederick W. Sawyer III, 71541,1662 To: "Rudolf Hooijenga", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/1/99 6:33 PM RE: Re: A dial by any other name... Rudolf, The following notice appears in the current issue of The Compendium. It may be what you are looking for: Gnomon

Re: brass suppliers

1999-09-01 Thread John Carmichael
H >John - > >Where are you located? > >Regards, >Henry Dear Henry & others; I neglected to say that I'm in Tucson Arizona, but if brass can't be located in USA, it's ok to give me an international address. Thanks, John C. >- Original Message - >From: John Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>