Mojca and Peter, thanks very much for your responses. I used Peter's
solution and it worked beautifully.
Does anyone know how I can change the size of these labels? If I try
textext(\tfa decimal(tx))
that does not work.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Peter Rolf <indi...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Curiouslearn schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want the labels as (0.5,0.55,0.6,0.65,0.7,...,1) or
>> (0.50,0.55,0.60,0.65,0.70,...,1). Either of these two is fine.
>>
>> I tried the following code for this.
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startuseMPgraphic{labeltest}
>> numeric rmin,rmax;
>> rmin := 0.5; rmax := 1;
>> ux := 25cm; uy :=10cm;
>> % draw axes
>> draw (rmin,0)*ux -- (rmax+0.1,0)*ux;
>> draw (rmin,0)*ux -- (rmin*ux,(1.1)*uy);
>> for x = 0.5 step 0.05 until 1.1:
>> label.bot(textext(decimal(x)),(x*ux,x*uy));
>>
> you accumulate the rounding error with every step of the loop. try to avoid
> such 'low value' steps if possible.
>
> for x = 10 step 1 until 22: % 0.05*20 to get an integer loop index
> tx := x/20; % correct value
> label.bot(textext(decimal(tx)),(tx*ux,tx*uy));
>
>
> Best wishes, Peter
>
> endfor;
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>>
>> \useMPgraphic{labeltest}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> I get (0.5,0.55, 0.6,0.65001,0.70001,0.75002,...,1.00003) instead. I don't
>> understand why I get more than 2 digits after 0.6. Is there a way to
>> restrict the number of digits after the decimal point.
>> Thanks very much.
>>
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