Spacing Custom Tick Labels

Help
1

Hi I am new to Labplot and have been following this tutorial on how to use custom x-axis labels: LabPlot/Tutorials/Plotting/PlotTextData - KDE UserBase Wiki . However, the Spacing option can only take two values, the default 10 and 0.5 and not 1. This makes my plot axis look sparse and very cramped. I have 30 labels I would like to include.

Please help figuring out what I may be doing wrong.

Kind regards,

image
image2185×1143 211 KB

image
image2188×1144 140 KB

DrOxman

2

Hi,

  • The type determines at which position the tick is created. In your case every 0.5.
  • The label type determines which label shall be used at those ticks. For the first tick the first label in the spreadsheet and so on.

In common scenarios you wanna have ticks at predefined positions determined in a column in a spreadsheet and selecting as type Custom Column and selecting the column in the upcomming Selection Box.
In the label type selction you use also Custom Columnand select the desired column.

I personally create a tickLabel Spreadsheet with two columns. First column the tick positions as doubleor integer type and a second column with the labels using Text as column type

3

@marmsoler, thank you for clarifying that. I suspect the above tutorial needs to be updated to include those details.

Kind regards,

DrOxman

4

You are welcome :slight_smile:

By the way. The new documentation can be found at Plot Text Data — Labplot Manual 2.12 documentation
It is still the old text, but other tutorials and informations are more up to date

1 Like