Re: [XForms] Request-- Minor ticks also log if axis FL_LOG

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Hi Bill.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:18:35AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> At present if an axis is FL_LOG, the minor ticks are equally spaced, which of
> course makes no sense as far as the log values are concerned, at least with
> the most common log base 10 scaling. Thus perhaps there should be an option
> for the minor ticks to also be scaled logarithmically. Thus if in a
> FL_LOG 10 plot, if you only want 1 minor tick, put it on log(3),
> two ticks on log(2) and log(5) and 10 ticks on log(2), log(3)..log(9)
> 
> (no idea what to do for number of minor ticks between 3 and 8-- perhaps just
> not allow them if one chooses this option)
> 
> The equal spaced ticks used at present if the graph covers more than a factor
> of 10, are just meaningless divisors. This should at least be an option.

Never thought about that (but then I never used a xyplot for any-
thing important) and your proposal sounds to me like a very
reasonable idea. But wouldn't it make more sense to put the
minor ticks at numerically equidistant positions (i.e. for one
minor tick in your example at 5, for two ticks at 3.3333 and 6666
etc.)? I guess I would have trouble figuring out what they repre-
sent otherwise since I'm more used to that kind of ticks on loga-
rithmic scales (especially when there are no numbers to indicate
what they stand for). Of course, they will then bunch on the side
of the upper major tick...

When i get around to implementing that may I come back to you
for having a look if what I cobbled together works as expected?

                         Thanks and best reagards, Jens
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