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Re: Axis labeling trickery [message #85783 is a reply to message #85781]

Sat, 07 September 2013 11:50

Phillip Bitzer
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Registered: June 2006

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On Friday, September 6, 2013 6:18:06 PM UTC-5, Paul Levine wrote:

> Example 1:
> time = timegen(120,start=julday(1,1,2003), units='M', step_size=1)
>
> data = 20*randomu(seed,n_elements(time))-10
>
> void = Label_Date(Date_Format='%Y')
>
> cgPlot, time, data, xrange=[julday(1,1,2003),julday(12,31,2012)],
>
> XTickFormat='Label_Date', XTicks = 10
>

Looks like this example gives me something different - 2003-2012 is the range of the labels. No 2013, but 2004 and 2008 are duplicated and 2005 is missing. XTicks=9 gives the correct labels, though (ten year span => 9 tick intervals and 10 tickmarks).

Just for reference:
IDL> print, !VERSION
{ x86_64 darwin unix Mac OS X 8.2.2 Jan 23 2013 64 64}

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		Axis labeling trickery By: Paul Levine on Fri, 06 September 2013 16:18
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: Phillip Bitzer on Sat, 07 September 2013 11:50
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: Paul Levine on Sat, 07 September 2013 12:47
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: Fabzi on Sat, 07 September 2013 12:56
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: Paul Levine on Mon, 09 September 2013 14:59
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: suicidaleggroll on Mon, 09 September 2013 15:33
		Re: Axis labeling trickery By: Paul Levine on Mon, 09 September 2013 15:51

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