Re: 90-deg rotated tick mark labels

[indium]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:20:20AM -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:58 AM, indium wrote:
> 
> > Dear all, 
> > 
> > There is a 'rotation' property of text, but not of the tick labels.
> > Can this be added?  If not, what would be the procedure to implement
> > this manually?  I saw somewhere that people write a routine to replace
> > the tick labels by text labels, but I don't see an obvious way to
> > extract the 'screen-coordinates' of the (original) tick labels.
> > Especially in log-scales the xtick values are not the same as the
> > ('linear') screen coordinates.
> > 
> > many thanks
> 
> Octave isn't able to do this in a convenient way.
> 
> A work around is to turn the ticklabels off ....
> 
>       set (gca, "xticklabel", "")
>       set (gca, "yticklabel", "")
> 
> ... and use the text() function to create your own.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> 
Okay, thanks for the quick answer. 

Is there a way to get the 'screen-coordinate' positions of the standard
tick mark labels?