Re: A question on contour labeling

Ben Tupper writes:

> > Is there I way to specify the distance between contour labeling? I need to
> > use different settings as the IDL default distance sometimes writes the
> > contour labeling at the same horizontal making the labels hardly legible.
> > 
> 
> You might want to check out the following from David Fanning.
> 
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/nlevels.html
> 
> In that article, David describes how to explicitly set the contour 
> levels.  You also have a choice as to which levels are labeled with the 
> C_LEVELS keyword.

I think this is a different question, though.
I don't think there is any way to access the
algorithm IDL uses for contour spacing.
Usually the best you can do is make the
window larger or smaller.

Cheers,

David
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