Re: Re: label origin on plot
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- Subject: [mg57661] Re: [mg57616] Re: [mg57583] label origin on plot
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:33:55 -0400 (EDT)
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The method of showing part of a frame does not give felicitous results
if, e.g, the plot of 1 - x^2 is to be done on domain from -1 to 1.
If you open just about any calculus text, e.g., to a 2D graph plot,
you'll see axes going through the pont (0, 0) and with that point
labelled with a single 0. It's unfortunate that Mathematica does not
provide an option to Plot to reproduce this well-established behavior.
It's just plain annoying that one has to resort to the work-around of
using an Epilog with a Text primitive.
David Park wrote:
> I'm a little surprised. With a standard Axes plot it does not seem possible
> to get the zero ticks labeled.
>
> Plot[1 - x^2, {x, 0, 1}];
>
> Extending the lower plot range and even explicitly labeling the ticks still
> does not work.
>
> Plot[1 - x^2, {x, 0, 1},
> Ticks -> {Table[{i, i}, {i, 0, 1, 0.2}], Table[{i, i}, {i, 0, 1, 0.2}]},
> PlotRange -> {{-0.05, 1}, {-0.05, 1}}];
>
> But using a Frame (which is generally better anyway) and extending the lower
> plot range will label the zero points.
>
> Plot[1 - x^2, {x, 0, 1},
> Frame -> True,
> PlotRange -> {{-0.01, 1}, {-0.01, 1}}];
>
> If you don't want to show the entire Frame you can use...
>
> Plot[1 - x^2, {x, 0, 1},
> Frame -> {True, True, False, False},
> PlotRange -> {{-0.01, 1}, {-0.01, 1}}];
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
>
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To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
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>
> In a 2-dimensional plot, Mathematica typically does not label the
> origin. I would like X=0 to be labeled as "0." Is this possible?
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- Re: label origin on plot