MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, plot option axesfont

Curious bug

Robert Israel — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:24:58 Z

This is a rather odd bug. It's not a distinction between horizontal and vertical, I think, rather that tickmarks on one axis are specified using strings. If you change ROMAN to ITALIC or BOLD, you'll see that this does affect the horizontal tickmarks as well as the vertical ones. The font size and font family don't affect tickmarks specified using strings. A work-around is to use names rather than strings. Thus

> dates :=  [0 = `21/8/00`, 140 = `8/1/01`, etc ]

ought to do it.

Thanks

Mariner — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:29:32 Z

Many thanks Robert. I should have noticed that axesfont had no effect on strings, whether on the horizontal, or vertical axis. Presumably this is one result of the improvements made to plots in Maple 11.01, but it is strange that there are no commands for adjusting the font and size. It is minor nuisance, as it was convenient with Maple 10.06 to use readdata to import an array from a text file, in which one column contained dates expressed as strings. It was then a simple matter to produce the list shown as "dates" in the example above. Now, it's necessary to use convert(x,'`local`') to convert those date strings into names, before doing anything else. Let's hope the Maplesoft will clean up this bug. Sorry to have taken so long to reply, but I was away for the day. J. Tarr

Strings and axesfont option

pchin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:49:50 Z

There is indeed a problem with the axefont option and axes labels that are provided as strings. I've added this report to our bugs database and we plan to have it fixed in a future release. Paulina Chin Maplesoft