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[Brian Doty]

Thank you for your suggestions.  A new shaded contouring routine is
in development that will provide the functionality you suggest... Brian

On Apr 5, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Semyon Grodsky wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As you are working on the new version of GRADS, I would like to
> suggest
> considering the following options.
>
> 1. Adding 'NaN' as an option for UNDEF.
>
> 2. Adding color 'None' that means no shading.
>
> For an example
>
> -----------------------------------
> set gxout shaded
> set clevs -1 1
> set ccols 2 0 4
> d var
> ------------------------------------
>
> This shades in white between -1 1 contours.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> set clevs -1 1
> set ccols 2 "None" 4
> d var
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> This would not shade the space in between -1 and 1 leaving it 100%
> transparable.
>
>
> I anticipate that users could offer many suggestions. Of course,
> not all
> of them could be easy to implement. But it might occur that some
> suggestions would be worth thinking about.
>
>  --Senya
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Semyon Grodsky
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