Re: 20030502: GDCROSS X axis labels, ticks, grid

[John Merrill <jmerrill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unidata Support wrote:

> John,
>
> GDCROSS does not have the XAXIS parameter in its parameter list,
> so changing its value will have no effect. The program is currently
> hardcoded to label the endpoints, but nothing else. 
>
> I played around with the program GPANOT and it is possible to 
> place text values for the labels, but this is not a general solution.
>
> As today is Friday, and nobody else is here answering support,
> I don't have time today to develop a solution for processing XAXIS
> but will try to look at it next week (after preparing my policy committee
> report of course!)
>
>  
Thanks very much - I hadn't noticed that XAXIS was not in the parameter 
list - Duh. The hard coding of the
endpoints appears to be consistent with an early message in the Support 
archives which notes that because
the cross section can have an arbitrary orientation, the places where 
the X axis crosses cardinal values of
Lat or Lon may be irregularly spaced and otherwise nontrivial. The 
particular plot I'm working on is
quite boring in this regard. Of course I appreciate any help you can 
provide. My programmer is not an
experienced Gempak coder, but she is very capable, and hints on how to 
cluge a local patch might be all
we need.                   John

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