Text options

This dialog can be opened by several commands such as Title... command or when you double click on an axis title in your plot. The Color, Font and Alignment commands allow the modification of the general settings of the text label. By checking the box Apply format to all labels in layer, the formating will be applied to all texts in the plot layer, including the plot title and the axes labels.

Figure 5-61. The axis title options dialog.

The following slightly modified dialog is opened when you double click on texts/legends in your plot in order to customize them. It also allows to add text boxes to a plot layer. When the text object is a legend, listing the curves plotted on the layer, the curve symbols and lines are also drawn in the text box, in front of the curve names. In order to display the symbol of a curve and the name of the data set, the follwing synthax is used: \l(2)%(2). Here the number 2, refers to the index of the curve and the % character is an alias for the name of the data set.

The Opacity of the Background color can have a value between 0 (transparent background) and 255 (completely opaque background).

Figure 5-62. The legend/text options dialog.

The text item can be modified in the text window. Several improvements can be added to the text: