Re: RE: Labelled ticks at the origin
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- Subject: [mg70895] Re: [mg70865] RE: [mg70840] Labelled ticks at the origin
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 03:55:03 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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- Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
Perhaps folks use ticks and labels along the axes themselves because
that's exactly what we learn in math classes?
David Park wrote:
> Why do you use an Axes plot and put ticks and labels all across your
> beautiful function or data? You will very seldom, if ever, see anything like
> that in a top technical journal.
>
> Use a two sided Frame and the function is not stomped on and the zero tick
> label comes back.
>
> Plot[2.1 Sin[2 Pi x], {x, 0, 1},
> PlotRange -> {{0, 1}, {-2.1, 2.1}},
> Frame -> {True, True, False, False},
> FrameTicks -> {{0.5, 1}, {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2}},
> AxesStyle -> GrayLevel[0.8]];
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
> From: AES [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu]
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>
>
> Many of us have noted, and even discussed on this group, Mathematica's
> inexplicable -- or is it just obstinate? -- refusal to put labelled Tick
> marks at the origin, even when there's plenty of room for them and no
> interfering axis in the way, or even an explicit request to do so, e.g.
>
> PlotRange->{{0, 1}, {-2.1, 2.1}};
> Ticks->{{0.5, 1.0}, {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2}};
>
> This note is just to put on record a minor gimmick that most Mathematica
> experts probably already know: if you convert the second line to
>
> Ticks->{{0.5, 1.0}, {-2, -1, {0.001,"0"}, 1, 2}};
>
> you'll get just what you want (unless of course Mathematica decides to
> strike back at you in some hidden way elsewhere as punishment for your
> sneaking around its rigid rules and regulations).
>
>
>
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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