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From: SL.KRS@ISUMVS.BITNET (Kathy Shelley)
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Subject: Comment on R= A= Axis options
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Date: 9 Feb 90 06:07:40 GMT
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A question was posed and specifically answered recently about the R=
and A= options in the AXIS statements.

This is a challenge to display in character mode, but a possible
explanation of the R= and A= options in the AXIS statement could go as
follows.  The A option rotates the whole title and the R option rotates
the characters in the title .  Suppose we have a vertical axis title
defaulting across the top of the graph like this:

: :
* +


To keep the first character * on top of our rotated title, we need to
rotate the original title -90 degrees to obtain the picture below (note
that R=0 at this point for no character rotation).

*>
+>      (Title is on its side here rotated to the right -90 degrees)

Now we need to rotate the *> character back to the original by turning
it 90 degrees (R=90), thus obtaining:

:
*

:
+

Sorry this looks so strange, but I think this is one way to think about
rotating axes titles.

I would have sent this directly to Claire, but I lost the bitnet
address.

Kathy Shelley, ISU Statistics SL$KRS@ISUMVS