Re: GraphicsArray and alignment of graphs
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- Subject: [mg21288] Re: GraphicsArray and alignment of graphs
- From: Alan Lewis <alanlewis at home.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:47:08 -0500 (EST)
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You could start with, say, fig1 = Plot[x, {x, 0, 10}, Axes->{True,False}] fig2 = Plot[x^4, {x, 0, 10},Axes->{True,False}] Show[GraphicsArray[{{fig1}, {fig2}}],Frame->True] which looks aligned to me. And then try to build from there, adding elements that don't destroy the alignment. For example, you could use the Text[expr,coords] primitives to write the (now missing) y axis coordinates to both graphs. Kind of a pain, but might solve your problem. Alan Thomas Bohl wrote: > > Dear Mathematica Experts, > > I have got a problem concerning "GraphicsArray and alignment of graphs". > > The problem is that I could not figure out, how to align horizontally the > frames of two graphs with identical x-axis (scale), but different y-axis > (scale) in a convenient way. > > To illustrate the problem: > > fig1 = Plot[x, {x, 0, 10}, Frame->True] > fig2 = Plot[x^4, {x, 0, 10}, Frame->True] > Show[GraphicsArray[{{fig1}, {fig2}}]] > > The two frames are not aligned horizontally. > > I would like to have both frames aligned horizontally. This is not > possible with "Align Selected Graphics". I have searched the mathematica > newsgroup, the site of WRI and just came across the same problem posed > about five years ago, and then several times again, without finding a > satisfying answer. > > Somebody proposed to apply Rectangle[Scaled[]... to one of the figures > until they align. However, this is quite a tedious procedure, especially > if there are several graphs to align. > > I think it is quite common in some sciences to make this kind of aligned > plots, showing for example data & fit in one graph and the residuals in > another or showing a contourplot in one graph and a projection in another. > > > Please let me know, how to get around this problem (still using > Mathematica and not exporting the data for another software). > > Kind regards, > Thomas Bohl.