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===================== Check Out My Website: http://craneium.net Find me on LinkedIn: http://tinyurl.com/d6wlch On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ryan Grout <ayr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/25/2011 06:14 PM, Dox wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Today I was writing a SAGE tip for my blog, about using customized >> ticks in plots, and I realize that, >> >> sage: p = plot(sin(x), (x, -7, 7), ticks=pi/2, tick_formatter=pi, >> axes_labels=['$x$','$\\sin(x)$'], fontsize=14, color='red') >> >> sage: p.save('/home/me/fig1.pdf') >> >> sage: q = plot(2*x+1,(x,0,5),ticks=[[0,1,e,pi,sqrt(20)], >> 2],tick_formatter="latex") >> sage: q.save('/home/me/fig2.pdf') >> > > you need to specify the axis labeling in the p.save part. For example, > > sage = p = plot(sin(x), (x, -7, 7), color='red') > > sage: p.save('/home/me/fig1.pdf', ticks=pi/2, tick_formatter=pi, > axes_labels=['$x$','$\\sin(x)$'], fontsize=14) > > This outputs the correct figure. I don't think plot passes the extra > parameters to .save, but does to .show. I've run into this before when I > was working on a paper. This is how I got around the issue. > > > sage: p = plot(sin(x), (x, -7, 7), ticks=pi/2, tick_formatter=pi, > axes_labels=['$x$','$\\sin(x)$'], fontsize=14, > color='red').show(filename='/home/me/test_ticks.pdf') > > > An extra comment: Is it possible to write $\frac{3\pi}{2}#$ in the >> ticks instead of $\frac{3}{2}\pi$ ? Just for the sake of compactness. >> > > As for this, I don't know. My suggestion would be to try it and see if it > works. > > Ryan Grout > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
