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Re: Identify auto tick locations
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Peter A. Gustafson |
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Re: Identify auto tick locations |
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:32:31 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 30 October 2007 17:15:13 Troy Henderson wrote:
> Is it possible to get Octave to return its automatic placement of tick
> locations (both x and y) for a 2D graph without having to actually
> plot something by simply providing an "axis range". For example,
> executing the command
>
> axis([0 1 -4e4 4e4])
>
> pops up a plot window where the x ticks (and labels) are located at
> 0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1 and the y ticks (and labels) are located at
> -40000,-30000,-20000,-10000,0,10000,20000,30000,40000
>
> Is there a command in Octave to retrieve these two lists without
> having to open a plot window?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Troy Henderson
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No, tic placement is managed by the plotting backend (gnuplot) unless you
specify the tic positions on your own. The latter is most easily done with
the tics() function in octave-forge plot package, thought it can be done with
the set() function.
Pete