Re: tick labels in 2-D plots
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg5108] Re: tick labels in 2-D plots
- From: "David B. Wagner" <dbwagner at princon.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:04:06 -0500
- Organization: Principia Consulting
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Carl W. Swartz wrote:
>
> Is there a way in general to get fewer labeled tick
> marks? I want to avoid having to use
>
> Ticks -> {..........},
>
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> --------------------------------------------
> Bill Swartz
> University of New Mexico
> E-mail: swartz at eece.unm.edu
It is an undocumented feature in version 2.2 that a tick specification
passed to Ticks can be a function of two arguments that returns a
valid tick specification (e.g., a list). The two arguments are
the min and max values on the axis. Thus, you can use something
like
Ticks->{Function[{x0,x1}, Range[x0, x1, (x1-x0)/5],
Function[{y0,y1}, Range[y0, y1, (y1-y0)/7]}
to get, in this example, 6 evenly-spaced tickmarks on the x-axis
and 8 evenly-spaced tickmarks on the y-axis. (Choose your own numbers.)
The advantage to this approach is that you can set this to be the
default Ticks option using
SetOptions[Plot, Ticks->etc]
and it will adapt to each plot.