Re: [PyX-user] Ragged tick labels

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi Thomas,

On 06.10.05, Thomas Pohl wrote:
> my question is slightly off-topic, but since PyX is
> also/mostly about producing nice looking graphs I'm
> asking anyway:
> What's The Right Thing (tm by J. Lehmann ;-)) for
> the formatting of tick labels in graphs? Maybe it's
> easiest to give two examples:
> 
> *** A ***      vs.      *** B ***
>     1.1                    1.10
>    1.05                    1.05
>       1                    1.00
>    0.95                    0.95
>     0.9                    0.90
>    0.85                    0.85
> 
> IIRC, PyX's default is A, which looks rather ragged to me.
> I'd prefer the fixed precision in B, but what's the standard
> for scientific publications if there is any?

So my preference should be clear, since I made A being the default.
OTOH you may have seen, that the decimal texter already has the option
equalprecision, which you can just turn on and then the texter will
create version B instead of A. Its just a matter of taste ... and of
course it might also depend on the specific use-case ...


André

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