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Metview 4 completely revised its handling of Text, Annotation and Legend Plotting. The mains differences are:
- Metview 4's Text Plotting icon no longer has any legend parameters - these are all now contained in the Legend icon.
- The way to specify user text in a title has changed a little. Metview 3 contained options to specify whether a title contained automatic text, user text or both; Metview 4 instead has a default title line which is
"<magics_title/>". Any text line with this string will have the automatic title; lines without it will not. - Magics++ also has features, documented here, to:
- automatically add GRIB meta-data to a 'semi-automatic' plot title using GRIB_API keys. For instance, where Metview 3 used
!PARAM!Metview 4 would use<grib_info key='name'/>. - convert the date and time information according to a format string defined in C++ std::strftime (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/)
- automatically add GRIB meta-data to a 'semi-automatic' plot title using GRIB_API keys. For instance, where Metview 3 used
- Another commonly-encountered change is that instead of Text Reference Character Height, Metview now has Text Font Size.
- In Macro,
ptextis replaced bymtext.
See Legends, above, for information regarding the mixing of ptext() and mlegend().
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