Date:         Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:25:37 -0800
Reply-To:     MichelleZ <michelle_zunnurain@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         MichelleZ <michelle_zunnurain@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: GPLOT options - footnote is overwriting the legends
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On Jan 21, 12:34 pm, gerhard.hellrie...@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard
Hellriegel) wrote:
> The right place too look for are the device parameters in the GRAPH
> documentation. There are many like HPOS, VPOS, HSIZE, VSIZE, ....
> which all have influence on the graph. Also the legends and footnotes
> could be changed in size. The first question is, where you want to see the
> graph. Be careful with changing the device driver. The behaviour and
> defaults are different, also the values you provide. So don't investigate
> too much to fit your graph on the window, if you want to present it later
> as GIF in a http page or you want to plot it on a plotter. The results
> might be different!
> It's nearly impossible to say something about the optimal parameter values
> for your individual graph and environment. So best way is to check the
> documentation for the possible parameters and experiment with them. If
> your legends and footnotes together with the titles are too big, it might
> be a good idea to place them at the left or rigt side...
>
> Gerhard
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:30:39 +0000, Anna Larbalestier
>
>
>
> <anna.larbalest...@BRISTOL.AC.UK> wrote:
> >Hi
>
> >I've got a problem setting footnotes and legends.  I have a plot and
> >plot2 statement as I have two scales, each of which has 3 overlayed
> >plots (so 6 in total).  I'm defining two legends, one for each y axis,
> >and using the origin option on the legend statement to shuffle these so
> >that they sit next to each other rather than underneath each other, i.e.
> >Legend1   Legend2
> >- one         - one
> >- two         - two
> >- three      - three
>
> >However, when I add footnotes, it puts the footnotes on top of the
> >legends, making both unreadable.  I can't find anyway to prevent this.
> >Does anyone know why this is happening and how I stop it?
>
> >Thanks very much
>
> >Anna
>
> >--
> >=========================================
> >Anna Larbalestier
> >Research Associate in Medical Statistics
> >Bristol Heart Institute
> >Level 7, Bristol Royal Infirmary
> >Bristol
> >BS2 8HW
> >tel: 0117 342 2445
> >email: anna.larbalest...@bristol.ac.uk- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Anna,

Try increasing the page margins.

options leftmargin=1in rightmargin=1in topmargin=1in bottommargin=1in;


MZ