[GRASS-user] Horizontal legend font size

[Paul Moen]

Typo correction
The line
    I read the previous line to mean the only way to create a legend is to
use at and make the box wider than it is tall.  Is that correct?  Can I make
a legend horizontal without using at=bottom,top,left,right
Should read
    I read the previous line to mean the only way to create a horizontal
legend is to use at and make the box wider than it is tall.  Is that
correct?  Can I make a legend horizontal without using
at=bottom,top,left,right


On 8/11/08 2:50 PM, "Paul Moen" <pmoen at nd.gov> wrote:

> I want to create a horizontal legend for a raster.
> 
> The docs say,
> 
>> When using the mouse or at to size & place the legend, a user may create a
>> horizontal legend by making the box wider than it is tall.
> 
> I read the previous line to mean the only way to create a legend is to use at
> and make the box wider than it is tall.  Is that correct?  Can I make a legend
> horizontal without using at=bottom,top,left,right
> 
> The docs also say,
> 
>> Vertical legends produced with d.legend will place text labels to the right
>> of the legend box, horizontal legends will place text below. This text will
>> be auto-scaled to fit within the frame, reducing the size of the legend if
>> necessary. Legends positioned with the mouse or with the at option will not
>> auto-scale text, in order to provide more control to the user.
> 
> The last line that says that the text will not auto-scale when using at, which
> means that a horizontal legend¹s text will never auto-scale since the
> horizontal legend can only be made by using at to create a box that is wider
> than it is tall.  Am I misinterpreting anything?
> 
> My problem is that I get a horizontal legend that looks great except the text
> is huge and looks awful.
> 
> How can I change the size of the text in the legend?
> 
> The following are my commands.
> 
> d.rast raster at Temp
> d.frame -c frame=leg at=1,10,5,95
> d.legend -s range=0,13.5 labelnum=5 at=80,100,5,95 map=raster at Temp
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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Paul T. Moen
pmoen at nd.gov
701-328-2434
701-328-3696 (fax)
ND State Water Commission

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