Show and PlotRange
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg78419] Show and PlotRange
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 03:47:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
Does anyone like the new behavior of Show with respect to PlotRange? It uses the PlotRange settings from the first graphic listed, which so far is never what I want. I find that I must now always set PlotRange->Automatic when combining graphics with Show, which is quite a nuisance. Someone from WRI posted here that the reason for this change in Show is that with some of the new graphics options (Filling and so forth, I guess) it wouldn't make sense to use PlotRange->Automatic. I have yet to run into a single instance in my daily use of Mathematica in which I have wanted to set the PlotRange according to the first plot. I can understand that someone might want this sometimes, but to me, probably 95% of the time I want PlotRange->Automatic (or at times PlotRange->All). The other ~5%, I set a PlotRange explicitly. I would really like Show to have a default PlotRange->Automatic, and some *other* option for PlotRange that one could set in cases where you *do* want to use the PlotRange from the first plot. [And yes, I do know how to use SetOptions and have considered setting Show to have a default PlotRange->Automatic in the init.m file on the computers in our own classrooms, but this would cause a lot of confusion for students, who use Mathematica on university owned computers beyond my control all over campus, as well as on their own laptops.] -- Helen Read University of Vermont