SL.KRS@ISUMVS.BITNET (Kathy Shelley) (02/09/90)
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