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Other Plotting Capabilities

Now add titles to the simple plot graph using the TITLE, XTITLE, and YTITLE keywords. Using these simple keywords, IDL allows you to add a title to your plot as well as descriptive titles for your X and Y axis.

  1. Plot with titles:
    2. PLOT,PLOT_ASCII.TIME,PLOT_ASCII.Temperature1, $  
   TITLE='Temperature Over Time', $  
   XTITLE='Time in Seconds', YTITLE='Temperature Celsius'

     

    Figure 4-7: Adding Titles to a Plot Using TITLE, XTITLE and YTITLE

    Figure 4-7: Adding Titles to a Plot Using TITLE, XTITLE and YTITLE

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)