Re: tic marks for transformed axes

[Jim V. Z. <jr...@co...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker <br...@ph...> wrote:
>While I do like the general idea of allowing user-placed minitics, I
>strongly dislike that syntax.  Making a distinction between '' and ' '
>is bound to counter-intuitive...
>
>Here's a possible alternative, which would also allow for a possible
>extension to more than 2 kinds of tics in the future:
>
>	set xtics ("bottom" 0 0, "" 10 0, "" 13 2, \
>                   "here" 14 1, "top" 20)
>
>which would express that there are labelled major (level-0) tics at 0
>and 20, an unlabelled major at 10, an unlabelled sub-minor tic at 13,
>and a labelled minor tic (level 1) at 14.

I've checked code into CVS that implements levels 0 and 1.

I've also updated my demo program at http://jrv.oddones.org/ to use
the new syntax.  I'd appreciate if you would run the demo
(i.e. download http://jrv.oddones.org/transform-0.6.tar.gz, unpack,
and type "make plots").  

I'll be working on the tic routines over the next few days, but will
be traveling so probably won't see any discussion until I return.

	   - Jim Van Zandt