Config
Controlling your novem plots
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Plot configuration controls the chart type, axes, colours, labels, and layout.
Each setting is a file under config/. Use the CLI, API, or a
client library to change it.
Structure
Write a setting with POST and a plain-text body. The following tree lists
the configuration paths; each reference page describes the accepted values.
plot_name => Name
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├── config => Configuration options
│ ├── axis => The axis grammar (one file)
│ ├── margins => Surface margins + panel gutter
│ ├── facets => Panel carving (small multiples)
│ ├── labels => Per-datapoint annotations (one file)
│ ├── marks => Mark styling (one file)
│ ├── colors => The ix color instructions (one file)
│ ├── table => table specific settings
│ │ └── cell => Format table cells
│ │ ├── align => number alignment
│ │ ├── border => control table borders
│ │ ├── text => font information (weight, style, color)
│ │ ├── format => number and text format
│ │ ├── padding => cell padding
│ │ ├── width => cell width
│ │ └── merge => merge cells across cols and rows
│ ├── legend =>
│ │ ├── type => The kind of legend
│ │ ├── position => Position of the legend
│ │ ├── layout => Layout, rows, grids, alignment
│ │ ├── margin => Legend-scoped margins (the m/p pair)
│ │ └── format => Format of the individual legend item
│ ├── interactive =>
│ │ ├── format =>
│ │ └── highlight =>
│ ├── render =>
│ │ ├── template => Template to render against
│ │ ├── orientation => Landscape or Portrait orientation
│ │ └── scale =>
│ ├── projection => Map projection
│ ├── zoom => Named geographic extent
│ ├── position => Map focus, anchor, bearing, and relative scale
│ ├── caption => Caption below chart
│ ├── theme =>
│ ├── title => Title + optional subtitle (two lines)
│ └── type => bar, sbar, gbar etc...
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