Re: Setting Tic Marks

[Paul Kienzle]

Try

        xtics = [0,1000,2000,4000,8000,16000,20000]
        tics('x',xtics,int2str(xtics))

It works for me.

- Paul

On Jul 28, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> I'm trying to manually set tic marks on a plot. According to "help 
> tics,"
> the tics function has the form:
>
>   tics(axis,[pos1,pos2,...],['lab1';'lab2';...])
>
> Rather than typing a long array of pos1,pos2,pos3,..., I would prefer 
> to
> define a vector, and then pass it to tics, but I can't seem to find the
> correct format. What I have tried is:
>
> figure(ifig);
> clg;
> legend('off');
> axis('auto');
> title([in_file," - Power Spectrum - Welch"]);
> xlabel("Frequency, Hz");
> ylabel("Signal Amplitude, dB");
> Pxt=10*log10(abs(Px'));
> axis([0,20000]);
> tic_array = int2str([0:1000:20000])
> tics(x,tic_array);
> grid on;
> plot(w,Pxt);
>
> where tic_array is a character string with the correct values, but with
> space, not comma, delimiters. Without the commas, I get an error 
> message.
>
> Is there a simple way to convert a vector into something usable by 
> "tics?"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>
>
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