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Re: plot question: removing the year but not the months
Hi Brent,
Glad you caught that typo in my earlier mail. In the example
given "ppl txlint,1,0" rather than "ppl axlint,1,0" was of course the
means of turning off the YEAR part of the TIME axis values.
At the risk of boring the user group, let me add a couple of
notes on the Plotplus commands for axis customization that may not be
generally known:
ppl axlabp,labx,laby
by using values of +1 or 0 the axis labelling can be moved
to the top or right (+1), or supressed entirely (0). the
default value of -1 puts the labelling at the bottom,left
ppl axlint,lintx,linty
plotplus by default labels every second large axis tic. to
change this insert a value other than 2 - e.g. lint=1 to
label every large tic; lint=5 every 5th etc
ppl axnmtc,nmtcx,nmtcy
the defaults for this are zeros resulting in NO small tics.
non-zero values specify the number of small tics to put
between the large tics (4 puts 0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8 between 0 and 1)
ppl axset,top,bottom,left,right
the default values of 1 for top,bottom,left,right make all of
the axes visible. to make one or more axes invisible use a
value of zero - e.g. to make the righthand axis invisible use
ppl axset,,,,0 (notice that ,, with no value between is used
to leave undisturbed the default or previously set value)
ppl axlsze,hgtx,hgty
allows the user to alter the height in inches from the default
value of 0.1 but it has another potentially useful feature too!
if NEGATIVE values are given for hgtx or hgty, the axis values
will be multiplied by -1 before drawing. try the following
plot/i=1:10 1/i followed by
ppl axlsze,-0.1,-0.1 ; ppl plot
The above commands are for numerical x or y axes. For time axes the
corresponding commands are
ppl txlabp,labt (-1 below, +1 above, 0 for none)
ppl txnmtc,lintt (adds small tics; dark and light large tics
are used for major and minor intervals)
ppl txlsze,hght (negative value inverts text but placement
may be poor)
ppl txtype,type,style allows customization of time axis labels as follows
type=hours style=min (hour,minute on 2 lines)
=hrmin (on 1 line)
type=days style=hr (hour,day on 2 lines)
=hrday (on 1 line)
type=mon style=day (day,month on 2 lines)
=daymon(on 1 line)
type=yr style=mon1 (1-character month and year on 2 lines)
=mon3 (3-character month and year on 2 lines)
=monyr (month,year on 1 line)
ppl txlint,lowint,highint controls the frequency of labelling of the
2 levels of time axis values (earlier mail)
To anyone whose read this far,
Happy ferreting and ppl'ing
Mick
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