[rrd-developers] legend spacing problem - redux

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Carter,

what makes you say the glue  is not applied correctly? what
happens is that the lines in the legend get justified when they are
broken across. The last line does not get justified since it is not
being broken across ...

what people normally do, is to end their lines with \l and they get
left-aligned.

what you want is to not have lines justified, but left-aligned even
when they are broken automatically ...

I guess I had been using LaTeX too much when I designed this ...

cheers
tobi

Yesterday Carter Bullard wrote:

> Hey Tobi,
> Hmmmmm, well I'm not sure, it doesn't seem a natural solution,
> in that if I was a novice user, I would be perplexed by the need
> to use the option.  I think the behavior that I'm really looking for is
> no alignment at all.   Maybe "--align-legend=packed"?
>
> The actual problem is that the "glue" is being applied incorrectly.
> How about a global "--align-legend=noglue".  Very esoteric, may
> require a description of what glue is, but gets to the real issue.
>
> Yes, I don't like the 'J' either.
>
> Hope all is most excellent!!!!
>
> Carter
>
>
> On May 15, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
>
> > Hi Carter,
> >
> > I see the problem yes ...  but I don;t like that implementation
> > with \J ... shouldn't this be done with a global option called
> >
> > --align-legend=left
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> >
> > Today Carter Bullard wrote:
> >
> > > and here are two graphs, using rrdtool.1.2.23 with and without the
> > > old patches applied.
> > >
> > > http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.png
> > > http://qosient.com/argus/rrdtool.1.2.23.mod.png
> > >
> > > If you would like to see simple examples with graph definitions, etc....
> > > I can provide, so please send mail.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Carter
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten
> > http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 213 9902
> >
>

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