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Re: Common x- and y-axes labels..... [message #65391 is a reply to message #65383]

Mon, 02 March 2009 07:33

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Mar 2, 8:58 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> David Gell writes:
>> You can use the graphics keywords [xy]tickname to suppress the tick
>> labels on all but the desired plot.
>
> I usually suppress tick labels like this:
>
> IDL> plot, findgen(11), xtickformat='(A1)'
>
> I don't know WHY it works, but it does.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out what the user wanted
> to do either, so I haven't commented, but I did have
> something totally different from this in mind. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

It works because the string representation of any number in IDL is
a) right-justified
b) always has leading spaces

So if you take the first character of that, it's always a space... and
is therefore exactly equivalent to DG's replicate(' ',N).

-Jeremy.

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		Re: Common x- and y-axes labels..... By: Christopher Thom on Mon, 02 March 2009 11:58
		Re: Common x- and y-axes labels..... By: Jeremy Bailin on Mon, 02 March 2009 07:33
		Re: Common x- and y-axes labels..... By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 March 2009 05:58
		Re: Common x- and y-axes labels..... By: David Gell on Mon, 02 March 2009 05:36

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