Re[2]: [Matplotlib-users] xzeroaxis

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004, John Hunter apparently wrote:
>     # set the locations of the xticks
>     xticks( arange(6) )

>     # set the locations and labels of the xticks
>     xticks( arange(5), ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Sally', 'Sue') )

Just for context, there is much I can do with Matplotlib
that I cannot do in gnuplot, and vice versa.  Naturally I
want the best of both worlds ...

In gnuplot, I can
set xtics axis 
to put the tics (both the tics themselves and the
accompanying labels) along the zeroaxis (If the zeroaxis is
very close to the border, the axis option will move the tic
labels to outside the border.)

Now that you have given us axhline as a generalization of
gnuplot's
set xzeroaxis
please consider letting xticks take an optional "loc"
argument, which could either be "border" or a number to be
interpreted as a 'y' value.

So, e.g.,
axhline()
xticks(arange(5),loc=0)
would draw an xzeroaxis and
put the xtics along it.

Am I overlooking an obvious way to do this (in the
matlab module)?

fwiw,
Alan