Re: Labeling individual plot points using PlotMarkers
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- Subject: [mg78947] Re: Labeling individual plot points using PlotMarkers
- From: Nazdrovje <nazdrovje at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
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I am aware of that, but I really need something that is visible when
printed...
On Jul 5, 10:37 am, Jens-Peer Kuska <k... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Graphics[MapThread[
> Tooltip[Point[#1], #2] &, {{{{1, 2}, {1, 2}}, {{6, 9}, {6, 9}}, {{7,
> 10}, {7, 10}}}, {"\[Alpha]", "\[Beta]", "\[Gamma]"}}],
> Frame -> True]
>
> make tool tips on the points.
>
> Regards
> Jens
>
> Nazdrovje wrote:
> > I need to plot data measured by several subjects (using Mathematica 6). For
> > each subject (on the x-axis) I want to plot the maximum of a list of
> > observations and I want to label it with the position in the list
> > where this maximum value is reached. Getting these values is no
> > problem, but the labelling part is. I know I could program the labels
> > using Text or so with Epilog, but it looks so clumsy that I really
> > hate to do it in this way. ListPlot should be able to do its own
> > labeling, but it doesn't work for me. Since every dataset is just one
> > point (one subject, one maximum), ListPlot should be called as:
>
> > ListPlot[{{{1, 2}}, {{6, 9}}, {{7, 10}}}].
>
> > The outer braces to indicate that various datasets follow, the next
> > deeper {} to indicate the data set and the deepest {} to indicate a
> > coordinate pair as opposed to single y-values. I get three points with
> > different colors as expected. Leave out the second level of braces and
> > they are considered the same data set and are colored the same. If I
> > now add a PlotMarker option like this:
>
> > ListPlot[{{{1, 2}}, {{6, 9}}, {{7, 10}}}, PlotMarkers -> {"\[Alpha]",
> > "\[Beta]", "\[Gamma]"}]
>
> > the results are unexpected. The first plotmarker is fine, but the
> > second and third contain both the intended symbols and the first one
> > combined. The following workaround yields the result I want, but it's
> > really an ugly kludge:
>
> > ListPlot[{{{1, 2}, {1, 2}}, {{6, 9}, {6, 9}}, {{7, 10}, {7, 10}}},
> > PlotMarkers -> {"\[Alpha]", "\[Beta]", "\[Gamma]"}]
>
> > Anyone have a better idea to handle this? And is the overlapping
> > behaviour a bug?