Devon, it can be done by adding an additional character:

plargs plot (;f, g, (f+g),: g-f) i: 6j99

If the plot data is a 2 element boxed list the first item contains the
x-values, the second the y-values.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody -
>
> I'm putting together a 5-minute presentation on J for a "Language Slapdown"
> next week here in NYC - http://www.meetup.com/Language-Slapdown/ .
>
> I'd like to show a few colorful graphs but I'm hitting a problem I've had
> before but ignored: the default for axis labels doesn't reflect the true
> (X-axis) values without a lot of work.  For example,
>
>   load 'plot'
>
>   plargs=. 'pensize 5;key f g f+g g-f;keystyle fat;keypos rti; '
>
>   plargs=. plargs ,'keyfont Courier 14'
>
>
>
>   f=: 1 0 _0.3 0.01 0.004 &p.    *NB. 1+0x-0.3x^2+0.01x^3+0.004x^4*
>
>   g=: 3 0.5 0.1 _0.02 _0.006 &p. *NB. 3+0.5x+0.1x^2-0.02x^3-0.006x^4*
>
>
>
>   plargs plot (f, g, (f+g),: g-f) i: 6j99
>
> This gives an interesting plot but the X-axis doesn't reflect the values _6
> to 6.  If I use something like "xlabel ',":i:6j99", the axis values are
> unreadable as it tries to put all the numbers in.  Is there an easy way to
> specify that the labels should be something like "i:6j6" but still plot
> against the X-values of i:6j99?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devon
>
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