Re: pgplot y-axis key

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 14:46 -0400, rgibson_at_email.domain.hidden> I have a nice, complicated plot generated with ISIS 1.3.0 (yes, it's an old
> version).  The plot uses multiplot([1,1,...,1]), and there are two panes (or
> whatever you call them) in the x direction.  I.e., it was opened with
> open_plot("...", 2, 1);
> 
> The only problem is that the key that pgplot uses for the y-axis is
> unacceptable.  This is not the ylabel("") label, but the numbers that pgplot
> uses on the axis.  They are bunched together and unreadable.
> 
> I know this is an uncontrollable pgplot feature, but I thought maybe I could get
> around it by using _pgrect() to blank out the axis key and write my own values
> over it with xylabel().
> 
> Unfortunately, _pgrect() refuses to draw outside the plot box, even though there
> is text out there in the pane.
> 
> Is there a good way to get around this?  It would be nice to have a general
> solution, as this one feature prevents me from using ISIS plots, generally.
> 

To create highly specialized plots, it may be necessary to do
everything using the low-level pgplot routines.  For custom
plot axes and axis labels, you might consider using _pgbox,
_pgaxis and _pgtick.  Custom tick-marks may be created
using _pgtick:

  http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/subroutines.html#PGTICK

Thanks,
-John
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