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From: henry@angel.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton--Desktops Spoke Here)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: scale marks
Summary: GRAP
Message-ID: <136284@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 26 May 90 17:00:08 GMT
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In article <1064@ircam.ircam.fr>, eckel@marc.ircam.fr (Gerhard Eckel) writes:

    *  I'm currently writing some function plotting software
    *  and I ran into the problem of drawing scale marks and
    *  calculating a good grid size according to the range
    *  used in the function plot. I wonder if anybody did that
    *  already in a general enough way so that I could use it
    *  or at least look at it to learn how to implement this
    *  non-trivial but necessary feature of plotting software.

Take a look at GRAP -- the graphing preprocessor for PIC (the picture
preprocessor for troff) -- that comes with Documentor's Workbench.

	........  Henry