<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442823025337_2901">Hi:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442823025337_2899"> I find a solution. I use larger y axis of data_bounds to press down the curves, and then increase y axis of the figure_size. The results is acceptable. Actually I've drawn 8 curves and their shape is not ideal for placing the captions.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442823025337_3136" dir="ltr"> Da Feng<br></div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, September 21, 2015 8:46 AM, Tim Wescott <tim@wescottdesign.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">If I'm writing a paper then I generally put very terse captions or (more<br clear="none">usually) no captions on the plots, then use whatever editor I'm using<br clear="none">(usually Lyx/LaTeX these days) to caption the plot "properly".<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, sometimes I need to email just a plot to someone -- to convey<br clear="none">"see it works!" or "this is how disaster is striking".<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is there a way to put a linefeed into a caption for those times, or a<br clear="none">block of text?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 15:49 +0200, Samuel Gougeon wrote:<br clear="none">> Hello,<br clear="none">> Le 20/09/2015 11:14, Da Feng a écrit :<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > Hi:<br clear="none">> > I'm using plot() and find that if the caption is too long, then<br clear="none">> > part of it can't be seen. If I resize the figure and turn off<br clear="none">> > auto_resize, then part of the captions is still not drawn. But if I<br clear="none">> > turn on auto_resize, then the figure enlarges, and the captions is<br clear="none">> > still too long. What should I do?<br clear="none">> shorten the caption, as using a reference as caption and give its full<br clear="none">> text elsewhere, or reduce its font size.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> For a certain plot, there will always be a length for its caption that<br clear="none">> will require more space than the plot itself. So, you have to chose<br clear="none">> what should take most place: the plot or its caption.<br clear="none">> This is why one couldn't advice you to decrease the margins sizes.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> HTH<br clear="none">> Samuel<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> users mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users@lists.scilab.org" href="mailto:users@lists.scilab.org">users@lists.scilab.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tim Wescott<br clear="none">www.wescottdesign.com<br clear="none">Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.<br clear="none">Phone: 503.631.7815<br clear="none">Cell: 503.349.8432<div class="yqt7497574017" id="yqtfd45500"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:users@lists.scilab.org" href="mailto:users@lists.scilab.org">users@lists.scilab.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>