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Re: Re: A question concerning Show and PlotLegend

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• Subject: [mg65291] Re: [mg65270] Re: [mg65255] A question concerning Show and PlotLegend
• From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
• Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:59:49 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi Ryan,

> What I was hoping was that the command PlotRange -> 
> PlotRange[p2]] does is set the PlotRange for the Show to that 
> of p2- which is the plot of the data points.  If you remove 
> the variables for the legend, the plot does what it is 
> supposed to do- shows the theoretical curves and the data on 
> one plot.  Well, it actually outputs two plots.  One with 
> just the curves and below it one with the curves and the data 
> plotted together.  But when the variables used to set the 
> legend are included it messes everything up.
> 
> Just to be clear, p2 is a plot of some data points using 
> MultipleListPlot and I am trying to add two theoretical 
> curves to the plot.

I think you should be using ShowLegend[] rather than Show[] for this.  In
other words, get Plot[] sorted, get your MultipleListPlot[] sorted, then use
ShowLegend[] to add a Legend.

Regards,

Dave.