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Re: y axis tickmarks and box_plot [message #56248]

Tue, 09 October 2007 11:17

teich
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On Oct 9, 12:14 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> te...@atmsci.msrc.sunysb.edu writes:
>> I am using the bar_plot procedure. The tickmark at y equls zero on
>> the right hand side of the plot is going through the y-axis but I want
>> it to go like all the other tick marks (toughing the y-axis extending
>> to the left and not through). I don't know how to control tick marks
>> with box plot. Can anyone help or at least tell me why this happens?
>> (it only happens sometimes depending on what I have specified for !
>> y.range
>
> Bar_Plot is just a program written without much regard for
> aesthetics. :-)
>
> Find this line in the code, on or about line 226:
>
> barsize=barwidth*winrange/nbars ;Normal. bar width
>
> And change it to this:
>
> barsize=barwidth*winrange/(nbars+1) ;Normal. bar width
>
> That should look better. :-)
>
> 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.")

David,

Thanks, that works well!

H

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