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Re: Clever Tricky Solutions

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• Subject: [mg94331] Re: Clever Tricky Solutions
• From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
• Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:50:25 -0500 (EST)
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• Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Perhaps it's time for us to begin thinking about avoiding Show whenever 
> possible!  Users of older Mathematica versions became so familiar with 
> Show when it was used, among other things, to display a plot built up in 
>   parts, with each of the parts having the graphical output suppressed.

I actually do try to avoid it when I reasonably can, not only because of 
the PlotRange annoyance in Show, but also because plotting several 
things at once gives you the automatic PlotStyle colors for different 
curves. But sometimes Show is the most convenient thing to do. For 
instance, I have already plotted something by itself because I want to 
see it alone, and now I want to show it with something else. Or, I need 
to combine a Plot with a ParametricPlot, or with a Graphics object.

> (But none of the above is meant to "excuse" what might possibly be a 
> bade design decision about default PlotRange.)
> 




-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont

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  • Re: Clever Tricky Solutions
    • From: Helen Read <hpr@together.net>