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- From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Scientific graphic for Windows ?
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:05:48 GMT
- Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
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- In article <1993Jan1.065005.20838@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
- >5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( ) writes:
- ->
- ->> I have a question on sigma plot for dos. I have set the axis
- ->> label to scientific notation format. What it does, it puts
- ->> three digit exponents, i.e., for example, 2.3e+007. I couldn't
- ->> find a way to make it a two digit exponent like 2.3e+07. Can
- ->> somebody show me how to do it.
- ->
- ->> Thank you.
- ->
- ->> -Anis.
- ->
- ->Yes, I'm now a liar (well sort of) when I said
- ->SigmaPlot could control "everything" (I've not needed
- ->scientific notation before)
- ->I could not figure out how to do it elegantly via the menus
- ->BUT there is a way to do it that is a bit inelegant (via the menus).
- ->
- ->In Tick label options, select "Text from columns x (say column 7).
- ->
- ->In column 7, type out the labels as you would want them to
- ->appear on the graph. Now the problem here (that took me
- ->an hour - it is 30 deg Celcius outside and 35deg Celcius in
- ->my room - so the pressure was on) is that Sigma plot thinks
- ->that 2.3e+02 (the numbers I was using) is numerical, not text,
- ->so it converted it to its standard format which gives you so much
- ->agro.
- ->
- ->I forgot/don't know how to type numbers as text into the worksheet
- ->but the solution to this I found was to use 123 to make a wk1 file
- ->with the labels entered as text. Import it into Sigma plot and
- ->it will now recognise the labels as text - and you should
- ->now see the labels on the graph as you want them.
- ->(You should be able to use any data format to inport
- ->the labels into sigma plot. )
- ->
- ->There are probably better ways to do this but this
- ->is one way to do it at short notice.
- ->
- ->Hopefully, my reputation (or lack of it) is
- ->still intact. Happy New Year to all, Lachlan.
- ->
- ->--
- -> Lachlan Cranswick - CSIRO _--_|\ lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
- -> Division of Mineral Products / \ tel +61 3 647 0367
- -> PO Box 124, Port Melbourne 3207 \_.--._/ fax +61 3 646 3223
- -> AUSTRALIA v
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-
- No you're not liar, not at least about the tick label format.
- There is an amazingly easier way to change the number of digits
- in the exponent of the tick label. However, one has to factor
- out an appropriate factor first (as was mentioned earlier).
- Then just put the factor in the 'suffix' box and that's all!
- Sigma plot then just appends the suffix to the tick label!
- Impressive, isn't it?
-
- -Anis.
-
-