The Attributes Menu
The Attributes menu holds controls
changing the appearance of the plot. In addition to using the
mouse, the menu can be activated with the
(Alt-A) keystroke. Similarly,
the menu can be navigated with or without using the mouse.
The Title menu item (Alt-T) allows
you to change, add or remove a title to the plot. The title
is automatically located at the above and centered over the plot.
To remove the title, enter an empty field.
The X label menu item (Alt-L) allows
you to change, add or remove an X-axis label. The label
is automatically located to the left and centered upon the plot's
X-axis. To remove the label, enter an empty field.
The Y label menu item (Alt-A) allows
you to change, add or remove an Y-axis label. The label
is automatically located below and centered upon the plot's
Y-axis. To remove the label, enter an empty field. By default,
PAGES plot files do not have a Y-axis label.
The X-axis menu item (Alt-X) launches a
dialog that allows you to manually change the X-axis maximum and
minimum limits. This dialog adjusts automatically for a time or
simple numeric axis (see the Y-axis limits section below).
When clicked, the small buttons to the right of each entry field
change the value by a convenient, standard amount or you can simply
type a new value into the field.
The interpretation of the entry has some flexibility.
With a time axis limit, as in this example, an entry like
2003 63 in the date field will be recognized
to represent 2003-063.
Placing the cursor over a field and clicking the right mouse button
causes a format menu to “pop-up”. Selections
from the menu affect the display of information in that field only.
The Y-axis menu item (Alt-Y) launches a
dialog that allows you to manually change the Y-axis maximum and
minimum limits. Like the X-axis limits menu item above, the dialog
adjusts for a time or numeric axis. Here we see the numeric axis
dialog. A time axis dialog is shown in the X-axis limits section.
Like the X-axis dialog, the small buttons to the right of each entry field
change the value by a convenient, standard amount or you can type
a value into the field.
The selections in the Date formats (Alt-D)
sub-menu changes the format of dates given in the
plot and the list.
The current format options include:
- Long:
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.sss
where MM is the ISO 8601 two digit month
(January = 1) and DD is the two-digit day-of-month.
- Short:
YYYY-DDD hh:mm:ss.sss
where DDD is the ISO 8601 three digit day-of-year
(January 1 = 1).
The default date format is Short unless changed on the
command line
when starting the program.
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