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Text Plotting

A plot's title should not be underestimated - it provides vital information about what is being displayed.

During the exercises, remember to give your icons useful names!

Automatic Titles

The Text Plotting icon controls the content and appearance of the title. By default, it contains this:

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There is no automatic title for BUFR, geopoints or ASCII table data.

Customising an automatic title

Visualise the supplied GRIB file relative_humidity.grib to see its automatic title.

Create a new Text Plotting icon and try to get the title to look similar to the image above. You should play with the parameters Text Colour, Text Font, Text Font Style and Text Font Size.

Positioning a title

Make a duplicate of your Text Plotting icon. We will move the title to another location in the plot using the new icon. Use the following parameters:

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