Axis Label Positioning
The labels subelement of the
horizontalaxis and verticalaxis
elements allows you to control how Multigraph places tic marks and
labels along the axis. The location of the label for each tic mark is
determined by the position,
anchor, and angle attributes of
the labels tag. In terms of the discussion in
the section called “Positioning”, the "small" rectangle that is being positioned
is an imaginary rectangle surrounding the text label, and
the "base" point for each label is the
location of the corresponding tic mark on the axis (the
labels tag does not take a base
attribute).
Through various combinations of the anchor,
position, and angle attributes
it is possible to position, orient, and justify text in a graph very precisely.
Figure 6, “Axis Label Placement Examples” shows several examples. Note that the rectangles drawn around
the text in the figure are shown just for clarity; in a real graph, Multigraph does
not draw these rectangles.
Figure 6. Axis Label Placement Examples
