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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