Re: Show and PlotRange
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- Subject: [mg78464] Re: Show and PlotRange
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 06:54:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Helen, you can have an init.m File in the directory: $UserBaseDirectory. The changes will then only be visible by the corresponding user. hope this hepls, Daniel Helen Read wrote: > Does anyone like the new behavior of Show with respect to PlotRange? It > uses the PlotRange settings from the first graphic listed, which so far > is never what I want. I find that I must now always set > PlotRange->Automatic when combining graphics with Show, which is quite a > nuisance. > > Someone from WRI posted here that the reason for this change in Show is > that with some of the new graphics options (Filling and so forth, I > guess) it wouldn't make sense to use PlotRange->Automatic. I have yet to > run into a single instance in my daily use of Mathematica in which I > have wanted to set the PlotRange according to the first plot. I can > understand that someone might want this sometimes, but to me, probably > 95% of the time I want PlotRange->Automatic (or at times > PlotRange->All). The other ~5%, I set a PlotRange explicitly. > > I would really like Show to have a default PlotRange->Automatic, and > some *other* option for PlotRange that one could set in cases where you > *do* want to use the PlotRange from the first plot. > > [And yes, I do know how to use SetOptions and have considered setting > Show to have a default PlotRange->Automatic in the init.m file on the > computers in our own classrooms, but this would cause a lot of confusion > for students, who use Mathematica on university owned computers beyond > my control all over campus, as well as on their own laptops.] >