<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Try using 'set clskip' to increase the spacing between labels. --Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:28 AM, Kim WonMoo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" id="MailContainerBody" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" canvastabstop="true" name="Compose message area"> <div><font face="Calibri">Dear friends,</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">I would like to change the 'position' of the contour labels, for they block the region I am interested in.</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">I know that 'clopts' can change the sizes of the labels, 'clskip' the spacing, and 'cint' the intervals,</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">but they all block the very region I need. I think the position is a kind of reference position for labeling (It's on the center of the map).</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">Are there any way to move the reference position, not changing the map domain (lon, lat range)?</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">Thanks in advance,</font></div> <div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div> <div><font face="Calibri">Kim, WonMoo</font></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>