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Re: framed plots with two y axes scales

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  • Subject: [mg80320] Re: framed plots with two y axes scales
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:54:51 -0400 (EDT)

On 8/16/07 at 4:50 AM, chris.chiasson at gmail.com (Chris  Chiasson)
wrote:

>On Aug 12, 6:38 am, Bill Rowe <readnews... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>>Your code seems overly complex to me. The following seems much less
>>complex to me and looks like it does what you want

>>Plot[1/2 (20 t - 9.80665 t^2), {t, 0, 2}, Frame -> True, FrameLabel
>>-> {"t(s)", "h(m)", "", "h(ft)"}, FrameTicks -> {Automatic,
>>Automatic, None, {.3048 #, #} & /@ Range[0, 16, 2]}] -- To reply
>>via email subtract one hundred and four

>The difference is that you manually specified where the tick marks
>went while mine are automatically extracted from the graphic (which
>I am sure you realize).

Yes. Doing things this way has the advantage that the numbering
for the second axis will be nice numbers. This will not be true
of your solution in general without quite a bit more coding.
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