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Re: GDPLOT2: CINT and different output on same plot

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  • Subject: Re: GDPLOT2: CINT and different output on same plot
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:14:41 -0600
Christian, 
Perhaps the easiest way would be to use 3 CINT and TYPE ranges:
CINT = 4//1008 ! 4/1012/1012 ! 4/1016/
TYPE = 1/1/4 ! 1/1/8 ! 1/1/4

This would avoid duplicating the 1012 contour with other settings.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 22:49 +0200, Christian Pagé wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a curious problem. I am trying to use gdplot2 to contour lines of MSLP.
> I want the 1012 line to have a width of 8 instead of 4 (in a PSC device).
> My original coding was to make two contours, like this:
> 
> CINT = 4 ! 4/1012/1012
> TYPE = 1/1/4 ! 1/1/8
> 
> The problem is that the two resulting 1012 lines are not exactly the same.
> Furthermore, the placement of the label 1012 is not exactly at the
> same place neither...
> 
> Is there a way to do this in a better way?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
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Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
Unidata