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Re: formatting yticks over orders of mag. [message #20013]

Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Paul van Delst <pvandelst@ncep.noaa.gov> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way in PLOT, /YLOG to format the yticks "dynamically". E.g.
> If my y-values range from 0.001 to 10000, can the ytick labels be forced
> to be
>
> 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000
>
> rather than
>
> 0.001, 0.010, 0.100, 1.000, 10.000, 100.000, 1000.000, 10000.000
>
> The latter requires me to change my XMARGIN keyword so that I can see
> the y-axis label to such an extent that there's not much plot area left
> (due to the 10000.000). I would rather not do the 10^n format since it
> doesn't give the same impression of magnitude change (plotology :o). I
> looked at the YICKFORMAT documentation but that seems to apply to *all*
> the ytick values. I am wrong about this?

Hi--

I usually do this by hand, namely with the YTICKNAME keyword.

Craig

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