From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9747 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MP graph auto axes Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:55:29 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ref.ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021107095401.03198d70@server-1> References: <20021106191356.7160@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036667528 31363 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 11:12:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189kZz-00089j-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:12:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5294D10B2B; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:13:36 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4727310AF5 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:12:59 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA7CAgiS003321 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA7BCtgi022622 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:12:56 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ref.vet.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <20021106191356.7160@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ref.ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9747 At 07:13 PM 11/6/2002 +0000, you wrote: >This is not strictly a ConTeXt problem, but I was hoping there were >enough MetaPost experts on the list that I might get an idea of what's >going on, or at the least, where to go for more information. > >I think the MetaPost graphing features are fantastic. It produces very >nice output, and automatically handles a lot of axis labelling that other >packages don't bother with. > >However, it auto-labels the y-axis on the following three graphs very >differently. I was wondering if this is a strict limitation in the axis >ranges that MetaPost deals with gracefully, or if it might be a bug. I >haven't seen any reference to the correct range for graph axes. I've >tried many ranges, and some work, some don't. looks like some problem in interpreting the big numbers, (mp can handle only numbers <4000 and some string trickery is used in the graph package); does this also happens in stand alone graphics or is it context specific? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------