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From: Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tic marks
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:13:09 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:46:01 +0000, Dieter Britz wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:39:20 +0000, Dieter Britz wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:33:41 +0100, Christoph Bersch wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 15.02.2013 16:06, schrieb Dieter Britz:
>>>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:04:25 +0000, Dieter Britz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have some data where the x-axis is years. The range is
>>>>> [1989:2013].
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to have year numbers like 1990, 2000, 2010 with large
>>>>> tics at these numbers, but small tics for the whole range, as I
>>>>> would get with
>>>>>
>>>>> xtics 1989, 1, 2013
>>>>
>>>> There is another problem. I once asked here about colouring a plot,
>>>> and got a recipe, which works fine. However, it seems to erase tic
>>>> marks. For example, I have
>>>>
>>>> set xtics 1990, 5, 2010 set ytics 0, 100, 300 set obj rect from graph
>>>> 0, graph 0 to graph 1, graph 1 back \
>>>>      fc rgb '#FFEFD5' fillstyle solid 0.5
>>>>
>>>> and the numbers come out on both axes, but no tic marks. Is this an
>>>> effect of the set obj line?
>>> 
>>> set tics front set xtics 1990, 5, 2010 scale 1,1 set mxtics 5 set
>>> ytics 0, 100, 300 set obj rect from graph 0, graph 0 to graph 1, graph
>>> 1 back \
>>>       fc rgb '#FFEFD5' fillstyle solid 0.5
>>> 
>>> This should solve both problems.
>>> 
>>> Christoph
>> 
>> Thanks, but the tic marks at the numbers are the same size as all the
>> others. Can they not be made bigger?
> 
> Found it out, scale 2,1. I should have known.

One more question:
I want a line at y = 0, so I added

set xzeroaxis

to the code. But there is none. Do the above commands somehow
block a zero line?

-- 
Dieter Britz