Re: fyi, A nice package for making plot ticks
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- Subject: [mg113416] Re: fyi, A nice package for making plot ticks
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:33:43 -0400 (EDT)
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On Oct 24, 5:04 am, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n... at 12000.org> wrote: > I always had hardtime with ticks for log plots. Today I found a nice > package for doing that and more, and was easy to use. I thought I'll > mention that, in case if someone else did not know about it. > > In Mathematica, when making a Log plot, the ticks do not come out in > standard format of labels as 10^n. > > I'll show a small example of how to use this package. It can be found at > > http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Demos/5599/ > > However, I think I found a more recent version of the same package here: > > http://wnsl.physics.yale.edu/levelscheme/ > > (version 3.45). Becuase I downloaded both, and looked at the source code > of CustomTicks.m in both, and the second one above seems more recent. > > I downloaded the above zip file, and extracted its content, then did > > Get["C:\\LevelScheme-3.45\\CustomTicks.m"]; > data=Table[{i,i^2},{i,100}]; > > ListLogLogPlot[data] (* Ma= thematica command*) > ListPlot[Log[10, data], Ticks -> LogTicks] (*using CuromTicks *) > > You can see the difference in this screen shot > > http://12000.org/tmp/ticks_for_Mathematica/image.png > > Even the minor ticks look better and more clear. > > Thank you for the authors of this package. > > --Nasser Didn't I email you that link a while back? :) -RG
