Hi Christian,
Thanks for the detailed reply.
Joel.
--- On Mon, 1/8/11, Christian Feuersaenger <cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: Christian Feuersaenger <cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fixed-width axis tick labels
> To: jtzzaa11-pgf...@yahoo.com, "'PGFplots mailing list'"
> <pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Monday, 1 August, 2011, 1:02 AM
> Hi Joel,
>
> you can
> a) manually fix your tick labels using
> ytick={0,1,...,5},
> yticklabels={00,01,02,03,04,05},
> or
> b) make a more-or-less general approach which fixes it
> automatically using
> \begin{axis}[yticklabel={%
> $
> \ifdim\tick pt<10pt
> 0%
> \fi
> \pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}$%
> },%
> ]
> ...
> Here, the \ifdim\tick pt < 10pt is a TeX
> comparison which works if the numbers are small. The 'pt'
> suffix is here because TeX can only compare in units of
> point.
>
> The approach will probably fit into your approach, although
> it needs to be modified for negative numbers.
>
> c) try to experiment with the sizes of the label nodes
> which is preferrable over a) and b). Tikz offers the minimum
> width approach:
> yticklabel style={minimum width=3em}
>
> d) exclude the axis descriptions explicitly from the
> external image's bounding box. This last approach is what I
> have done to fix the alignment in such cases.
>
> To do so, you can use the 'trim axis right' and/or 'trim
> axis left' features. The following example is copied
> from the manual, section "Alignment":
>
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{rl}
> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline,trim axis left]
> \begin{axis}
>
> \addplot {x};
> \end{axis}
> \end{tikzpicture}
> &
> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline,trim axis
> right]
> \begin{axis}[
> ylabel={$f(x)=x^2$},
> yticklabel pos=right,
> ylabel style={font=\Huge}]
> \addplot {x^2};
> \end{axis}
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \\
> %
> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline,trim axis left]
> \begin{axis}[xlabel=$x$,xlabel
> style={font=\Huge}]
> \addplot {x^3};
> \end{axis}
> \end{tikzpicture}%
> &
> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline,trim axis
> right]
> \begin{axis}[yticklabel pos=right]
> \addplot {x^4};
> \end{axis}
> \end{tikzpicture}%
> \\
> \end{tabular}%
> \end{center}
>
> I hope one of the approaches is what you had in mind. I
> encourage you to consider the last one.
>
> Best regards
>
> Christian
>
> PS
> I posted a copy of this reply to the mailing list since it
> might be of general interest.
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