[ferret_users] strange interaction between viewport and TXTYPE

[Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ferreters,

1) It seems that "set viewport" changes the type of the time-axis labels.

Without "set viewport", I get J, F, M, . . . . for my climatological axis; with set viewport, I get JAN, FEB, MAR, . . .

2) Run the same script again and get different time-axis labels.

When I run the same script again, I get J, F, M, . . . !!!  I don't have anything in my ~/.ferret .

Here is my script.  It's self-contained and doesn't need external datafiles.

! --- try2.jnl ---

set data coads_climatology
define view/axes/x=0.5:0.9/y=0.1:0.8 myright
set view myright
fill/transpose/hlimits=22S:34S SST[x=180]

and you run it as

yes? go try2.jnl ! -> JAN, FEB, MAR, . . .

yes? go try2.jnl ! -> J, F, M, . . .

To get a stable result, I seem to always need

PPL txtype,YR,MON1

I used

PyFerret v7.6 (optimized)
Darwin 18.7.0 - 06/25/20

on macOS 10.15.7

for this test.

Regards,

Ryo