Re: Tick mark function
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- Subject: [mg68151] Re: Tick mark function
- From: "Norbert Marxer" <marxer at mec.li>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:26:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello
All you have to do is to include curly brackets: e.g.
Ticks -> {{Max[#1, #2]} &, None}
Because the second argument (#2) is the maximum you don't even need the
function Max[...]. You could simply use:
Ticks -> {{#2} &, None}
Best Regards
Norbert Marxer
www.mec.li
D. Grady wrote:
> 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!