Re: [Plplot-general] Custom labels for log plots?

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

Ryan Hamilton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to recreate a plot from a paper which has a log X axis and a 
> linear Y axis, and had custom X labels for each subtick leading up to 
> each change in magnitude since the data barely span an order of 
> magnitude.  Without custom X labels I'm left with only two labels on the 
> whole X axis.  No amount of playing with xtick or nxsub in plbox+plenv 
> achieved what I was trying to do, though I am open to suggestions to see 
> if I missed anything.  I played with the plslabelfunc() routine 
> successfully (through python), but there is no option to plot either 
> axis in log using the custom labeling function, only linear.  Is there 
> an obvious workaround I'm missing?  Thanks,

One approach that might work for you is to take the log of the data 
first, then plot it on a linear plot (appropriately labeled).

-Hazen