Re: Plot Question
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- Subject: [mg67741] Re: Plot Question
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:52:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 7/5/06 at 4:18 AM, bbhole at gmail.com (Bharat Bhole) wrote:
>I have a 2-D Plot in which I want to restrict the display of y-axis
>from 8-16, and of x-axis from 0-9. I achieve this using
>plot=Plot[function[x],{x,1,8}, PlotRange ->{{0,9},{8,16}},
>AxesOrigin->{0,8}].
>Then I want to label the x and y-axes and this is where I am having
>trouble. I want the x-axis label to appear just below the x-axis
>(and not at the end of the axis, as option AxesLabel gives). So I
>use the Text command and define
>labelX = Text["name-xaxis", {5,7}]
>Then I use,
>Show[ plot , labelX ]
>This, however, does not show name-xaxis, which I suppose is because
>it is out of PlotRange specified in Plot command. If I modify the
>PlotRange in the Show[ ] command to say
>Show[plot,labelX, PlotRange->{{0,9},{6,16}}]
>then it shows the name-xaxis, however, it also extends the y-axis
>line to y=5. How can I both, get the name to display and at the same
>time have the y-axis start at value 8.
There are a couple of ways to achieve what you want. The most obvious way is to change the coordinates for the label so that they are within the specified plot range. The alternative would be to use something like David Park's DrawGraphics package to draw a custom x and y-axis.
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