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Re: user defined xtics and mxtics

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From	sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject	Re: user defined xtics and mxtics
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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

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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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