<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>You can use 'set clab Bernd' and all the contour labels will be drawn as "Bernd". To get what you want you just have to draw one level at a time. </div><div>'set clevs 100'</div><div>'set clab this'</div><div>'d var'</div><div>'set clevs 200'</div><div>'set clab that'</div><div>'d var'</div><div>etc.</div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>set the level </div><div><div><div>On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Becker, Bernd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Hello, <br>I am looking for succinct way to specify user define labels on a contour<br>plot. <br><br>My 2p so far:<br><br>lab=0<br>while ( lab < 7 )<br><br>* every 5 days<br>delta =lab*5<br>pent =newdate(fxdate, delta)<br>mmdd =substr(pent ,5,8)<br>label =mmdd<br>* leave space around labels<br>'set clab masked' <br>'set clab 'label <br>say 'set clab 'label <br>'set clevs ' delta<br>'set ccols ' 1 <br>'d onset3'<br><br>lab=lab+1<br>endwhile<br><br>My preferred solution:<br><br>set clevs 5 10 15 20 25<br>set ccols 1 1 1 1 1<br>and here I need your help:<br>set clabs bob rudy lisa refrigerator 4721<br><br>Does this exist? If not, it may need to be invented.<br><br>Many thanks!<br>Bernd.<br><br>--<br>Bernd Becker Climate Impacts Product Development<br>Met Office Hadley Centre FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United<br>Kingdom<br>Tel.: +44 (0) 1392 884511 Fax: +44 (0)870 900 5050<br>E-mail:<a href="mailto:bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk">bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk</a> -<br><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/</a><br>bernd-becker<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></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>