Re: How can I change the format of plot labels?
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- Subject: [mg3709] Re: How can I change the format of plot labels?
- From: ianc (Ian Collier)
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:11:43 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Steve, I posted this (or tried to anyway), last Wednesday, but it doesn't appear to have shown up. Did you not get it? Thanks, --Ian In article <4jsp2k$2pp at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, hinsenk at ERE.UMontreal.CA (Konrad HINSEN) wrote: > One of my plots has axis labels that look like > > 1.5 > 1.45 > 1.4 > 1.35 > ... > > I'd like to get the decimal points lined up, i.e. i want to > get "1.50" instead of "1.5". I didn't find any hint about > that in the manuals. The on-line reference says that > numbers are formatted using OutputForm[], which is exactly > what I would like to change, but how? > > -- > You can do this by specifyng the labels you want using the Ticks option. Here is a simple example: In[10]:= Plot[ Sin[x], {x, 0,3}, Ticks -> {Automatic, {0,.25,{.5,"0.50"},.75,{1,"1.00"}}}] Out[10]= -Graphics- This is described in Section 2.9.5 of the Mathematica book. "Labelling Two-Dimensional Graphs". You might also want to look at Tom Wickham-Jones book, Mathematica Graphics: Techniques & Applications published by TELOS/Springer-Verlag, 1994 ISBN 0-387-94047-2. This book discusses the implementation of ways tof customise tick labels on Mathematica graphics amongst other things. I hope this helps. --Ian ----------------------------------------------------------- Ian Collier Wolfram Research, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------- tel:(217)-398-0700 fax:(217)-398-0747 ianc at wolfram.com Wolfram Research Home Page: http://www.wolfram.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====