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Re: axis [message #11790 is a reply to message #10712]

Tue, 26 May 1998 00:00

R. Bauer
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Registered: November 1996

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David Fanning wrote:

> R. Bauer (r.bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
>
>> Who knows the mechanism which axis is using to calculate the perfect
>> ticknames of the tickmarks?
>
> Not I. But why would you want to know? If you wish to
> modify it in some way, it is as simple as writing your
> own tickformat routine and calling it with the [XYZ]Tickformat
> keywords.
>

The mechanism is quite good
e.g.

PRO tst_range
a = findgen(6)-1.5
b = sin(a)
plot,a,b,/xstyle,/ystyle
END

In this example the xrange is [-1.5 ,3.5] and the label algorithm knows
that it should not begin labeling by
-1.5.

I know using of functions called by tickformat may be able to do the
same.

--
R.Bauer

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de

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