Re: Tick mark function
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- Subject: [mg68172] Re: Tick mark function
- From: "D. Grady" <D.C.Grady at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:29:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Wow, I feel like an idiot. Adding curly braces is exactly what I
needed to do; everything works fine now. Thanks to everyone who
offered suggestions; I really appreciate it!
-D. Grady
Norbert Marxer wrote:
> Hello
>
> All you have to do is to include curly brackets: e.g.
>
> Ticks -> {{Max[#1, #2]} &, None}
>
> Because the second argument (#2) is the maximum you don't even need the
> function Max[...]. You could simply use:
>
> Ticks -> {{#2} &, None}
>
> Best Regards
> Norbert Marxer
> www.mec.li
>
>
> D. Grady wrote:
> > I'm working on a problem that involves creating a large group of
> > ListPlots, and the scales of the individual plots are not necessarily
> > similar. When displaying these plots together in a GraphicsArray, the
> > tick mark values on the plot axes can be bunched so tightly that they
> > are illegible. What I would like to do is display a single tick mark
> > on each axis at the maximum value of the axis. In the documentation
> > for Ticks, it says that you can supply a "function to be applied to
> > x_min, x_max to get the tick mark option," but I've been unsuccesful in
> > getting this to work. I've tried
> >
> > Ticks->{Max[#1,#2]&,None}
> > Ticks->{Max[#]&,None}
> > Ticks->{Max,None}
> >
> > to no avail. Does anyone know how this setting for Ticks is intended
> > to function? I have spent some time going through the group archives
> > and found many references to the DrawGraphics package which includes a
> > CustomTicks function; if all else fails I'm sure that would be a
> > solution, but I was hoping for something more straightforward. Thanks
> > in advance!