From help-request at octave dot org Mon Apr 25 14:46:46 2005
Subject: Re: Setting y-axis scale with axis();
From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: help at octave dot org
CC: Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net>, Octave Help <help@octave.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:47:57 +0100

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Joe Koski wrote:

> ... how can you, for example, let the x-axis be
> automatic, and set limits for the y-axis only? I couldn't find an
> example of
> that usage of axis.
>
> (I'm still trying to replace all of my old gset commands with "proper
> Octave.")
>
> Joe


If you set the x axis to something arbitrary along with the other axes
that you wish to control, you can then autoscale the x axis:

octave> x = -pi:pi/20:pi; y = sin (x);
octave> plot (x,y);
octave> axis ([0,1,-1.5,+1.5])
octave> axis ("auto x")

- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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