Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: sfeam Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: user defined xtics and mxtics Followup-To: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:23:40 -0700 Organization: gnuplot development team Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <87ehkpez2g.fsf@panzer.v.cablecom.net> Reply-To: sfeam@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8e86a57dfa599721f116da4577f3d1af"; logging-data="22112"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+o+79Ti30PlRod6RIhEImv" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9dGIhTYP2DBPp95S2w737eZ0S44= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1430 Ingo Thies wrote: > sfeam wrote: > >> 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. > > Does gnuplot now really support manually defined tics and mtics? > So far as I know it has always been possible to define minor tics. However, no associated text label is drawn for the minor tics. > So, how do you define the manual mtics here? As far as I remember, this > has not been possible until recently (unless you use arrows for this, of > course). Labeled major tics at 0, 0.5, 1.0, unlabeled minor tics at 0.25 and 0.75: set xtics ("Zero" 0 0, "Half" 0.5 0, "One" 1.0 0, 0.25 1, 0.75 1) The form for each tic is ("Label" ) where level 0 is major tic, and 1 is minor tic. Both the label and the level are optional. Levels > 1 are currently treated exactly the same as level=1 (label is not printed, minor tic is drawn) but in the future may have some different treatment. Ethan > > Best wishes, > Ingo