Number of decimals of axis labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:19 AM, German Ocampo wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:51 AM, German Ocampo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good afternoon.
>>>>
>>>> I making a plot of two simple vectors, and I need  to change the
>>>> number of decimals of the axis labels. Do you have some tip in how
>>>> to do it?  Is it possible to change the orientation of the y-axis
>>>> title rotated 90 degrees?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> German
>>>
>>> Presently there is no method specify the rotation of the tick  
>>> labels.
>>> However, you can try using text objects to create the labels you  
>>> want.
>>>
>>> To do that you'll need to turn off the ticklabels.
>>>
>>>        set (gca, "yticklabel", [])
>>>
>>> Ben
>>
>> I forgot to answer your question regarding the decimals. If you'd  
>> like to force 2 decimal places ...
>>
>>        set (gca, "xticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "xtick") 
>> (:), "%.2f")))
>>
>> For ytick's
>>
>>        set (gca, "yticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "ytick") 
>> (:), "%.2f")))
>>
>> Ben
>>
> Ben
>
> Thank you for your help, I using the Octave 3.0.5 in windows and I  
> tried using these commands about the decimals and they don't work.  
> Is something about configuration?
>
> regards
>
> german

No its not your configuration. Octave 3.0.5 did not support this  
behavior. Please upgrade to Octave 3.2.

	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

Ben