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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