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- From: spl@alex.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
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- Subject: Re: What's a package with well done tick (scale) marks?
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:04:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.154727.4235@ra.msstate.edu> borchert@walt.CS.MsState.Edu (Chris Borchert) writes:
- >Hey, I have asked this before, but I will ask again. I know that there has
- >to be a graphics program out there that has slick tick marks. ...
-
- >I have looked at xfig, but it doesn't work well. Any other I can try?
-
- Xfig? That's a drawing program, sorta like MacDraw.
-
- Maybe you mean Xgraph. It does an okay job until you start getting
- down to very small subareas of the graph and then it sort of loses its
- brains, but it is pretty clever and sensible, otherwise.
-
- Xmgr is supposed to be pretty nifty but it requires Motif. Someone,
- I'm sure, will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe that there's
- also an OpenLook version available (Xvgr???). I believe it does a
- good job with tick marks.
-
- My recollection is that gnuplot is all right, too.
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- I mean, it's pretty darn easy to write an intelligent tick mark
- algorithm -- I've done it a couple of times.
-
- spl
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