Re: Number of decimals of axis labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:19 AM, German Ocampo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> > > On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:51 AM, German Ocampo wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good afternoon.
> > > >
> > > > I making a plot of two simple vectors, and I need  to change the
> > > > number of decimals of the axis labels. Do you have some tip in how
> > > > to do it?  Is it possible to change the orientation of the y-axis
> > > > title rotated 90 degrees?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > German
> > >
> > > Presently there is no method specify the rotation of the tick  
> > > labels.
> > > However, you can try using text objects to create the labels you  
> > > want.
> > >
> > > To do that you'll need to turn off the ticklabels.
> > >
> > >        set (gca, "yticklabel", [])
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > I forgot to answer your question regarding the decimals. If you'd  
> > like to force 2 decimal places ...
> >
> >        set (gca, "xticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "xtick") 
> > (:), "%.2f")))
> >
> > For ytick's
> >
> >        set (gca, "yticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "ytick") 
> > (:), "%.2f")))
> >
> > Ben
> Ben
>
> Thank you for your help, I using the Octave 3.0.5 in windows and I  
> tried using these commands about the decimals and they don't work.  
> Is something about configuration?
>
> regards
>
> german

No its not your configuration. Octave 3.0.5 did not support this  
behavior. Please upgrade to Octave 3.2.

        http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

Ben