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Re: unwanted tick label [message #20507]

Thu, 29 June 2000 00:00

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Registered: January 2000

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Mark Fardal wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when I try the following
>
> plot,findgen(5),xstyle=8
> axis,/xaxis,xtickv=[1.5,2.5],xticks=2,xtickname=['Lo','Hi'], $
> xtitle='Only Want String labels'
>
> it produces an "0.00" at the upper left corner. I don't want this.
> In the plot I need to make, I have a completely different numerical
> scale on this axis, so it's outright wrong. The label only appears
> if !x.crange is close to 0.
>
> Right now as a workaround I am setting !x.crange=0.001.
> Is there a better way to get rid of this label? Is this a bug
> or a feature?
>
> { x86 linux unix 5.2.1 Jun 4 1999} on Debian Linux
>
> thanks,
> Mark Fardal

XTICKS is the number of tick *intervals*. Which makes you wonder why it's not
called XTICKINTERVAL. In any case, the number of ticks produced is XTICKS+1.

JD

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