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Re: "broken" scale in IDL plot [message #34592 is a reply to message #34564]

Mon, 31 March 2003 04:21

aszazeroth
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Registered: March 2003

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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.18e62f81808da424989b28@news.frii.com>...
> aszazeroth (aszazeroth@yahoo.com) writes:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone have any experience in "breaking" the
>> scaling in IDL plot mode.
>>
>> I would like to plot a 10% of the y-axis in a linear scale and then
>> change to logarithmic (base 10) scale for the rest of the 90%... the
>> x-scale is all linear.
>
> I think you will have to do something like this:
>
> data = Findgen(1000) + 1
> plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.15, 0.9, 0.35], XStyle=8, $
> YRange=[1,99], YStyle=1
> plot, data, Position=[0.15, 0.35, 0.9, 0.9], XStyle=4, $
> YRange=[101,1000], /YLog, /NoErase
> axis, xaxis=1, xtickformat='(A1)'
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

THANX, that made the trick... EXACTLY what I needed to do my plot. Thank you again.

//Aszazeroth

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