Re: Show and PlotRange
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- Subject: [mg78499] Re: Show and PlotRange
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:28:09 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
dh wrote: > Hi Helen, > > you can have an init.m File in the directory: $UserBaseDirectory. The > changes will then only be visible by the corresponding user. > hope this hepls, Daniel The students are not going to go around editing an init.m file on a computer they are using in, say, the library, or even on their own laptop. If I put something in the init.m file on the computers in the classroom, then Mathematica doesn't behave the same way for them when they are using a computer somewhere else, which leads to all sorts of confusion. It's better to get the students in the habit of always including PlotRange->Automatic when they use Show, so that they will do it consistently. My point, though, was that I don't like this change with Show, and I was wondering if anyone else *does* like it. That is, do you think it is better to have Show by default use the PlotRange from the first plot listed? I have so far never wanted it to behave that way, and would like the default to be PlotRange->Automatic, with an *option* one could set to use the PlotRange form the first plot. -- Helen Read University of Vermont