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Scientific Notation on Log Plots [message #5711]

Tue, 06 February 1996 00:00

boswell
Messages: 7
Registered: October 1994

Junior Member

I've got a bizarre formatting problem going on with IDL V4.0.1 on an Alpha
VMS machine. When I make a plot with the /ylog keyword, my plot comes out
with neatly labelled scientific notation on the y axis. The notation actually
has a number, followed by an asterisk, followed by a 10, and finally with an
actual superscript number for the exponent. But I need to take control of
the format using, for example, the ytickformat keyword. Only problem: the
format reverts to normal FORTRAN-style formatting, with a nn.nE+mm style.
In other words, the default neat exponential format goes away.

Is there any way to control the formatting of the default scientific notation?

Jonathan Boswell
FDA/CDRH

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