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Re: user defined xtics and mxtics

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sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Fab wrote:
>
>> sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Fab wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All
>>>> 
>>>> I read in the Gnuplot info's, that when I define my own xtics, I can
>>>> not use mxtics, which makes sense.
>>>
>>> That's not quite right.  You can define both tics and mtics manually.
>>> But you cannot define tics and have the program insert mtics
>>> automatically between them.
>>>
>> Indeed, I was not precise here!
>> 
>>>> However, especially in LaTeX terminals,
>>>> it is sometimes needed to redefine the axis label (actually only the
>>>> label and not the tics).  Is it somehow possible to define xtics and
>>>> mxtics the usual way but then change only the axis label, leaving
>>>> the tics as they are?
>>>
>>> Certainly.
>>>    set xtics ("One" 1, "Two" 2, "Three" 3)
>>>    set xlabel "My favorite label"
>>>
>>> But maybe you are asking something else?
>>> For LaTeX output you often want to set a LaTeX format for the tic
>>> labels:
>>>    set xtics format "$%g$"
>>>
>> My problem is the following: I have a plot with log x-axis.  When I
>> use the format specifier for scientific notation, LaTeX will typeset
>> this as
>> such (with the e-01, etc. notation).  However, I would like to have
>> xtic labels like $10^{-1}$
>
>   set format '$ %.2t10^{%T}$'
>
>> , hence I set them manually.  But, for a log plot
>> I would also like the minor xtics to indicate the scale between the
>> decades.  But I can not use xmtics in this case.  Do I also have to
>> create an array for the minor xtics?  I would like to have the xmtics
>> with half the ticlength of the major xtics.  How would you do it?
>
>   set tics scale 1.0, 0.5
>  

elegant! Thanks

Best,
Fab

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user defined xtics and mxtics Fab <fab4100@gmail.com> - 2012-10-23 22:03 +0200
  Re: user defined xtics and mxtics sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-10-23 15:02 -0700
    Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Fab <fab4100@gmail.com> - 2012-10-24 07:15 +0200
      Re: user defined xtics and mxtics sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-10-23 23:05 -0700
        Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Fab <fab4100@gmail.com> - 2012-10-24 13:16 +0200
    Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Ingo Thies <ingo.thies@gmx.de> - 2012-10-24 22:24 +0200
      Re: user defined xtics and mxtics sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-10-24 17:23 -0700
  Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Cristian Camilo Mejia <cc.mejia@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 14:04 -0700
  Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Cristian Camilo Mejia <cc.mejia@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 14:07 -0700

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