Re: [Plplot-general] Tic labels

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2015-12-10 13:22+0300 Mikhail Lisakov wrote:

> Dear PLPlot gurus,
>
> I'm using PLPlot from my Perl scripts. I like it but recently I've faced
> an issue I could not resolve myself (including exhaustive search for an
> answer on web).
>
> I use MJD (Modified Julian Date) as x-axis values. Values are usually
> around 56000.
> PLPlot labels xtics as 5.56 , 5.57 etc. and shows an axis multiplier x10^4.
> This appearance is far from desirable for me in this case.
>
> Is there a chance to tell PLPlot a format of tic labels?

Hi Mikhail:

The answer to your question is yes.  For an example of using this
PLplot functionality, look at the custom tic labeller used in standard
example 19.

Alan
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