MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Plot formatting: Label secondary x, y-axis in boxed style

dualaxisplot

Preben Alsholm — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:25:47 Z

If you are not already aware of dualaxisplot from the plots package, you may want to explore the possibilities it offers together with options for label directions and gridlines.

some control on axes, but limited

PatrickT — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:47:22 Z

In addition to Preben's suggestions,

I have found these help pages useful (you may well have seen them already):

http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=plot%2faxis
http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=plot%2ftickmarks

in particular, note the following plot options:

'axes' = box #box(ed),frame,normal

'axis' =[location=high] #high,low,origin

and also note that you can control the label fonts, the label orientations, the number of tickmarks, their positions, etc.

Your picture has a standard axis cutting at the origin together with a box around it, it looks like a mix of the normal and boxed styles in Maple. If dualaxisplot doesn't do what you want, you may need to (untested idea) create two plots and combine them with plots:-display(plot1,plot2).

Maple doesn't provide a good solution

tomukoe — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:17:05 Z

Hello,

1) it seems that Maple takes the axis parameter defined in the first plot a simple tryout is:

A := plot(x^2, x = 1 .. 5, axes = boxed, view = [-10 .. 10, -10 .. 10]);

B := plot(x^3, x = 1 .. 5, axes = normal, view = [-10 .. 10, -10 .. 10]);

display([B, A]);

display([A, B]);

If you look at the output you'll see that it is either boxed or normal..., but not displayed together!

2) Maple doesn't provide "at the moment" an option for the secondary x axes (top)

3) You can't label 4 axes, and even by hand using textplot there is no vertical option to get an output similiar to my gnuplot attached above.

But neitherless thank you both for your efforts,

Tobias

labeldirections

Preben Alsholm — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:39:10 Z

You can get vertical labels by using labeldirections.

dualaxisplot(plot(x^3,x=-1..1,labels=["Bottom","Left"],labelfont=["Times","Roman",15],labeldirections=[default,vertical]),
plot(x^5,x=-1..1,labels=["Bottom","Right"],labelfont=["Times","Roman",15],labeldirections=[default,vertical]),
axis=[gridlines=[5,majorlines=2]],title="Top",titlefont=["Times","Roman",15]);

lovely!

PatrickT — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:57:11 Z

@Preben Alsholm

Nice one! here's the result:

Difference

Preben Alsholm — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:41:06 Z

@PatrickT It is interesting that the picture displayed on MaplePrimes has the label "Right" appearing horizontally.

It is correctly displayed on the monitor screen in Maple 15.