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Re: inverse axis [message #10700] Wed, 14 January 1998 00:00
Martin Schultz is currently offline  Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997
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Haoran Wang wrote:
>
> I have two problems:
> 1)How can I plot x axis:left large,right small.That means x axis
> decreases from left to right.(is there any keyword in PLOT routine that
> can do this or maybe I need to use Object Graphics?)
>
try XRANGE=[ <HIGH>, <LOW> ]

(at least it works for Y ...)


> 2)After I plots a graph,I use xyouts to put a text besides each
> point.But because some points gather togother(they have nearly same
> value,so the texts gather togother too.So it is difficult to distinguish
> these points and texts.Is there any methods which can rescue this?

Not that I know of any automatic solution. One option might be to
only use labels instead of plotting points and place them with
align=0.5. This would of course mean you have to write a legend.

Hope this helps,
Martin.




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