<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Gentle people,<DIV>We added the 'J' prt_fctn in leg_place() back in December 2002, to fix a legend</DIV><DIV>spacing problem where the 2nd legend item of the last line in a multi-line legend,</DIV><DIV>does not line up properly. We used 'J' , because basically it supresses the 'j' prt_fctn</DIV><DIV>that is used automatically? Unfortunately, support for 'J' was removed in the</DIV><DIV>transition to 1.2.x, but the problem still exists. I'm sorry for not writing about</DIV><DIV>this earlier.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is a reference to the email, so long ago:</DIV><DIV> <A href="https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-developers/2002-December/000947.html">https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-developers/2002-December/000947.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What we're trying to do is allow the user to provide fixed length strings for</DIV><DIV>legend labels, and not have to worry about how to align the legend.</DIV><DIV>rrd_graph() does do the right thing in most cases, but when there are multi-line</DIV><DIV>multi-column legend objects, with COMMENTS:, rrd_graph() has an issue.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>These two links (referenced in the original email in december) show</DIV><DIV>the problem very well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.0.40.gif"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.0.40.gif</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.0.40.mod.gif"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.0.40.mod.gif</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and here are two graphs, using rrdtool.1.2.23 with and without the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">old patches applied.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.png">http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.png</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.mod.png">http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.mod.png</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EE" face="Courier" size="3"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you would like to see simple examples with graph definitions, etc....</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I can provide, so please send mail.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best Regards,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Carter</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>