Re: Re: Setting gridlines thickness in Plot
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- Subject: [mg59033] Re: [mg58959] Re: [mg58939] Setting gridlines thickness in Plot
- From: Omega Consulting <info at omegaconsultinggroup.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:25:04 -0400 (EDT)
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This is a case where AbsoluteOptions can be very useful.
Plot with the default set of lines.
In[1]:= pl=Plot[x,{x,0,1}, GridLines->Automatic, Frame->True]
AbsoluteOptions gives the explicit setting equivalent to the Automatic
settings.
In[2]:= {lines, ticks} = {GridLines, FrameTicks} /. AbsoluteOptions[pl];
Here's what 1 gridline looks like.
In[3]:= lines[[1,1]]
Out[3]= {0.,{RGBColor[0.,0.,0.5],AbsoluteThickness[0.25]}}
We then alter the lines and ticks to the form we want.
In[4]:= newlines = lines /._AbsoluteThickness->AbsoluteThickness[1.25];
In[5]:= newticks = ticks/._AbsoluteThickness->AbsoluteThickness[1];
And plot again with the new settings.
In[6]:= Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}, GridLines -> newlines, Frame -> True,
FrameStyle -> AbsoluteThickness[2], FrameTicks -> newticks]
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On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:12 AM, David Park wrote:
> For the frame there is the option FrameStyle.
>
> If you look at the Help for Ticks and GridLines you will see that
> there are
> methods for specifying the style of the Lines. However you then have to
> specify all of the ticks and grid lines.
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
> From: carlos at colorado.edu [mailto:carlos at colorado.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
>
> The problem:
>
> The default thickness of framelines, gridlines and tickmarks in Plot []
> is 0.25pt. This is too thin for typical figure reductions in journals
> & books, and
> may disappear from the printed version.
>
> The question:
>
> I want to set the thickness of frameline, gridlines and ticks to 2,
> 1.25 and 1 pt, respectively. These are good values for typical paper
> figures. How do I do
> that?
>
> (At the moment I do it with Illustrator postprocessing)
>
> Note: the online help is not much help. There a passing mention on
> setting
> Gridlines thickness with PlotStyle, but no examples. What would be
> nice is to
> reset the defaults once and for all.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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- From: "David Park" <djmp@earthlink.net>
- Re: Setting gridlines thickness in Plot