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Tick mark function

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  • Subject: [mg68134] Tick mark function
  • From: "D. Grady" <D.C.Grady at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:01:34 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'm working on a problem that involves creating a large group of
ListPlots, and the scales of the individual plots are not necessarily
similar.  When displaying these plots together in a GraphicsArray, the
tick mark values on the plot axes can be bunched so tightly that they
are illegible.  What I would like to do is display a single tick mark
on each axis at the maximum value of the axis.  In the documentation
for Ticks, it says that you can supply a "function to be applied to
x_min, x_max to get the tick mark option," but I've been unsuccesful in
getting this to work.  I've tried

Ticks->{Max[#1,#2]&,None}
Ticks->{Max[#]&,None}
Ticks->{Max,None}

to no avail.  Does anyone know how this setting for Ticks is intended
to function?  I have spent some time going through the group archives
and found many references to the DrawGraphics package which includes a
CustomTicks function; if all else fails I'm sure that would be a
solution, but I was hoping for something more straightforward.  Thanks
in advance!


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