Hi Neal,
I finally managed to implement this rigorously: for almost all
use-cases, it integrates seamlessly into the rest (including width/height).
I will upload a new unstable soon.
Best regards
Christian
Am 15.09.2012 23:40, schrieb Neal H. Walfield:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to look into this. I will check out
> what you have done so far. (Although I won't have time in the next
> week or so).
>
> Thank you!
>
> Neal
>
> At Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:51:13 +0200,
> Christian Feuersaenger wrote:
>> three weeks ago (or two!?), I started with an implementation for that
>> feature. I supposed it would be a very simple addition.
>>
>> However, it is not. I forgot that there is a hen- and egg problem: you
>> need the limits in order to fix the unit scaling and you need the unit
>> scaling in order to write something like
>>
>> enlarge x limits={abs=1cm} .
>>
>> My very first draft applies the "abs=1cm" (i.e. enlarge limit by a fixed
>> dimension) *after* the scaling. In other words: it respects your limit
>> enlargement, but it does not respect your choice of width/height. I am
>> unsure of how much time I can invest to implement this in a way which
>> keeps the axis dimensions fixed.
>>
>> If you want, you can experiment with that early draft and provide
>> feedback. I would let you know if the prototype changes its behavior.
>>
>> The feature is part of the pgfplots unstable currently (available as
>> download on http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/ ).
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 23.08.2012 12:41, schrieb Neal H. Walfield:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a very wide plot of some time serie data. In fact, it is so
>>> wide, that to keep the plot readable, I have to truncate it. This is
>>> okay, but I'd still like to display as much of the data as possible.
>>> I can gain some space by shrinking the limits (i.e., enlarge x
>>> limits). I could set enlarge x to false, but this makes the tick
>>> marks unreadable, so I'd like to avoid that. Instead, I'd like to
>>> specify an absolute value in paper dimensions. In particular, I'd
>>> like to set it to 1.5/pgfplots/ticklength.
>>>
>>> I first tried this:
>>>
>>> enlarge x limits={abs=1cm}
>>>
>>> But, that doesn't work:
>>>
>>> ! Package PGF Math Error: Could not parse input '1cm' as a floating
>>> point number, sorry. The unreadable part was near 'cm'..
>>>
>>> pgfplots appears to want the value in axis cs units.
>>>
>>> I think that to get this functionality, I'd need a new option to
>>> enlarge x limits, something along the lines of enlarge x
>>> limits={paper=dim}.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any help.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Neal
>>>
>>> A minimal working example:
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>>
>>> \usepackage{tikz}
>>> \usepackage{pgfplots}
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>> \begin{tikzpicture}
>>> \begin{axis}[small, width=\textwidth, height=.2\textheight]
>>> \addplot[domain=1:1000] {x};
>>> \end{axis}
>>> \end{tikzpicture}
>>>
>>> \end{document}
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