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Re: Major and minor ticks artifact

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From	Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Major and minor ticks artifact
Date	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:54:04 +0100
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On 20.03.2014 18:24, Dan Luecking wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:02:34 +0100, Janis Papanagnou
> <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [*] I also didn't analyse the code in depth. Specifically I didn't find the
>> loop in the code referenced by the link.
> 
> I believe it is the for-loop beginning on line 1290:
>   for (mplace = ministart; mplace < miniend; mplace += ministep) {
>   ...
> It indeed computes locations by cumulative addition. 

Thanks for the code reference and for the confirmation!

> 
> I once had to do a similar thing in Metafont code (not with tics, but
> the principle is the same) and ultimately settled on a counted loop,
> with a calculation of location at each step. It is less efficient, 
> but more accurate. 

Exactly.

Janis

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Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-02 18:19 +0100
  Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2014-03-02 20:10 +0100
    Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-14 23:54 +0100
      Re: Major and minor ticks artifact sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2014-03-14 22:17 -0700
        Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-15 10:54 +0100
          Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-03-18 18:38 +0100
            Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> - 2014-03-20 07:10 +0100
      Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> - 2014-03-15 13:27 +0100
        Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-15 23:02 +0100
          Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> - 2014-03-16 01:54 +0100
            Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-21 05:52 +0100
          Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Dan Luecking <LookInSig@uark.edu> - 2014-03-20 12:24 -0500
            Re: Major and minor ticks artifact Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-21 05:54 +0100

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