[gembud] Font differences between Gempak5.9.2 and Gempak5.10.2

[Mike Voss]

Steve,
Thanks for the guidance. As you suspected, I was unknowingly
overriding the TEXT attributes with my SFPARM settings. And so, when
plotting text using GEMPAK5.9.4 and later, SFPARM settings may need
to be adjusted (from what worked in previous versions), as in my case.

Regards,

-Mike

At 01:16 PM 8/13/2007, Steve Chiswell wrote:
>Mike,
>
>There are several factors which affect the TEXT plotting.
>In the first instance you only show a size of ".7". The
>font style and HW/SW flat will default to their previous
>setting- thus depending on what you had run in that
>directory/gplt session previously would continue to be in effect.
>Make sure you set all the items size/style/width/hw-sw
>in order to compare.
>
>
>Also added in 5.9.4:
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/GEMPAK5.9/whats_new.html#5.9.4
>was the ability to control text size in line for individual parameters,
>so you would want to ensure you aren't overriding any text attributes
>that way:
>
>       The text size and line width can also be specified for plotting
>numerical
>       data such as temperature and dewpoint.  These follow the parameter
>name,
>       or condition, delimited by colons.  For example, TMPF:2.5:3 ,
>would
>       cause temperatures to be plotted with a text size of 2.5 and a
>       line width of 3.  Text sizes that are positive cause the data to
>be
>       plotted at the location they would appear if they were being
>plotted
>       with the largest specified text size (ie. farther from the center
>of
>       the station model than they would normally appear).  Text sizes
>that are
>       negative cause the offsets from the center of the station model to
>be
>       computed based on the specified text size.  NOTE:  A large range
>of
>       negative text sizes may result in some degree of overplotting.
>       When using hardware fonts, text sizes may be named sizes.  For
>example,
>       tiny, SMALL, m, -m, -LARGE, etc, are all valid specifications.
>       If no text size is provided for a particular data type, that data
>will
>       be plotted with the default text size specified in the TEXT
>parameter.
>
>
>
>If you are still having trouble with sizes, please send me the script
>so I can run with the same TEXT, SFPARM, DEVICE settings
>that you used to produce the plots.
>
>Steve Chiswell
>Unidata User Support
>
>