TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT

...TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT

Plot Control Command

Specifies the format of the labels associated with the major tic marks on subsequent plots.

This command has three uses.
1. For linear scales the following formats are available:

   ALPHA	-	the tic labels will be user-supplied (via the TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT command) alphanumeric strings.
   REAL	-	linear scales are drawn with numeric values.
   EXPO	-	linear scales are drawn in exponential format. The default is E15.7 format. Use the TIC MARK LABEL DECIMAL command to control the number of digits (e.g., TIC MARK LABEL DECIMAL 4 will use an E12.4 format. This option was implemented 1997/07.

2. Log scales can be drawn in one of 3 formats. The available formats are:

   POWER	-	the corresponding power of 10 (e.g., 1 for 10**1) is drawn for the tic label.
   REAL	-	the corresponding real number (e.g., 10 for 10**1) is drawn for the tic label.
   EXPO	-	the tic label is drawn in exponential format (e.g., 10**1). The tic label must be drawn with a software font in order for this option to work correctly.

3. You can specify a variable be used to determine the contents of the tic mark labels:

   GROUP LABEL	-	use a group label variable for the tic mark labels (the variable name is specified on the TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT command).
   ROW LABEL	-	use the row labels for the tic mark labels (no TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT is needed).
   VARIABLE	-	use the contents of a numeric variable for the tic mark labels (the variable name is specified on the TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT command). The 2019/12 version updated this option to support character variables as well as numeric variables. See Program 5 below for an example. Group labels are useful for box plots and other plots that are plotted against a group-id variable. The VARIABLE option can be used to generate a "reverse" axis. The ROW LABEL option is most commonly used for bar charts (and related type plots).

<prefix>TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT <format>
where
            no prefix refers to all 4 sides;
            the prefix X refers to both horizontal sides;
            the prefix Y refers to both vertical sides;
            the prefix X1 refers to the lower horizontal side;
            the prefix X2 refers to the upper horizontal side;
            the prefix Y1 refers to the left vertical side;
            the prefix Y2 refers to the right vertical side;
and <format> is one of ALPHA/REAL/POWER/EXPO/GROUP LABEL as described in the DESCRIPTION section above.

TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT REAL
TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT POWER
TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT
X2TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT ALPHA
Y2TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT EXPONENTIAL
X1TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT EXPONENTIAL

A ...TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT command with no arguments reverts the setting to default; thus X1TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT with no arguments reverts the bottom horizontal tic label to the default format. A ...TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT command with no prefix refers to all 4 sides; thus TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT REAL sets tic mark labels to real for all 4 frame lines. TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT with no prefix and no arguments reverts the tic label format settings on all 4 sides to default.

The tic mark labels for Linear scales are real numbers. The tic mark labels for log scales are drawn with the POWER format.

TIC LABEL FORMAT is a synonym for TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT, as in TIC LABEL FORMAT REAL and X2TIC LABEL FORMAT REAL.

TIC MARK LABEL	=	Specifies whether or not tic mark labels or drawn.
TIC MARK LABEL ANGLE	=	Sets the angle for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL CASE	=	Sets case for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL CONTENTS	=	Specify alphanumeric values for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DECIMALS	=	Sets the number of decimals for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DIRECTION	=	Sets the direction (horizontal/ vertical) for TIC MARK labels.
TIC MARK LABEL DISPLACE	=	Sets the distance between tic labels and the frame.
TIC MARK LABEL FONT	=	Sets the font for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL HW	=	Sets the height and width for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL JUSTIFICATION	=	Sets the justification for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL SIZE	=	Sets the height for tic labels.
TIC MARK LABEL THICKNESS	=	Sets the line width for tic labels.

Log scales, presentation graphics.

1988/02
2004/01: Added support for group labels, row labels and numeric variables to specify the contents of tic mark labels.
2019/12: Added support for character variables to specify the contents of tic mark labels.

 
LEGEND 1 PRESENTATION GRAPHICS
LEGEND 2 3-D BAR HISTOGRAM
LET Y = DATA 392 341 307 203 115 59 38 32 29 28
LET N = NUMBER Y
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
.
LINES BLANK ALL
BAR ON ALL
BAR WIDTH .5 ALL
BAR DIMENSION 3 ALL
BAR FILL ONTS ALL
.
XLIMITS 1 10
XTIC OFFSET 1 1
MAJOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 10
MINOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 0
X1TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT ALPHA
X1TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT Apollo Sun HP DEC SYM SGI IBM DG TI Xerox
X1TIC MARK LABEL CASE ASIS
YLIMITS 0 500
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE TIC LABEL FORMAT
PLOT Y X X
    

 
SERIAL READ Y
   60.   2042.  2111.   1684.  3888.  1858.  11379.  17560.  39287.
 4382.  113159.  175108.  273291.  400186.  581243.  811568.
 1121004.  1506550.  2002767.  2611612.  3369180.
END OF DATA
SERIAL READ X
     0.  1.  32.  243.  1024.  3125.  7776.  16807.  32768.  59049.
100000.  161051.  248832.  371293.  537824.  759375.  1048576.
1419857.  1889568.  2476099.  3200000.
END OF DATA
.
TITLE SIZE 3
TIC LABEL SIZE 2.5
MULTIPLOT 2 2; MULTIPLOT CORNER COORDINATES 0 0 100 100
TITLE LINEAR SCALE
PLOT Y X
TITLE LOG SCALES (POWER FORMAT)
LOG ON
LET X = 0.0001 SUBSET X <= 0
PLOT Y X
TITLE LOG SCALE (REAL FORMAT)
TIC LABEL FORMAT REAL
PLOT Y X
TITLE LOG SCALE (EXPONENTIAL FORMAT)
TIC LABEL FORMAT EXPONENTIAL
TIC LABEL FONT SIMPLEX
PLOT Y X
END OF MULTIPLOT
    

 
set convert character on
skip 25
read draft69c.dat rank day month
.
let ig = group label month
x1tic mark label format group label
x1tic mark label content ig
x1tic mark label font simplex
x1tic mark label angle 45
x1tic mark label displacement 10
let xcode = character code month
.
major xtic mark number 12
minor xtic mark number 0
xlimits 1 12
xtic offset 0.5 0.5
.
char box plot
line box plot
fences on
.
box plot rank xcode
    

 
. Purpose:  Test TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT VARIABLE command for
.           bihistogram
.
SKIP 25
READ AUTO83B.DAT Y1 Y2
DELETE Y2 SUBSET Y2 < 0
.
TITLE AUTOMATIC
TITLE OFFSET 2
LABEL CASE ASIS
Y1LABEL MPG for US Cars
X1LABEL MPG for Japanese Cars
.
LET YLAB = DATA 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Y1TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT VARIABLE
Y1TIC MARK LABEL CONTENT YLAB
.
BIHISTOGRAM Y1 Y2
    

 
. Purpose:  Test TIC MARK LABEL FORMAT VARIABLE command for
.           both numeric and character data
.
. Step 1:   Create some data
.
let y = data 6  4 9
set string variable overwrite
set convert character on
read rowid ix
1  Group_1
2  Group_2
3  Group_3
end of data
.
set string variable append
read iy  zz
Row1    0
Row5    5
Row10  10
end of data
.
. Step 2:   Set the plot control
.
xlimits 1 3
major x1tic mark number 3
minor x1tic mark number 0
x1tic mark offset 0.8 0.8
x1tic mark label format variable
x1tic mark label content ix
major x2tic mark number 3
minor x2tic mark number 0
x2tic marks on
x2tic mark label on
x2tic mark offset 0.8 0.8
x2tic mark label format variable
x2tic mark label content rowid
ylimits 0 10
major y1tic mark number 3
minor y1tic mark number 4
y1tic mark label format variable
y1tic mark label content iy
major y2tic mark number 3
minor y2tic mark number 4
y2tic marks on
y2tic mark label on
y2tic mark label format variable
y2tic mark label content zz
.
bar on
bar width 0.5
line blank
.
. Step 3:   Plot the data
.
plot y