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From: coffee@aero.ARPA (Peter C. Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1-2-3 and LOG-LOG plots?
Message-ID: <11259@aero.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 15:10:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.11259
Posted: Mon May  4 15:10:06 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 06:43:12 EDT
References: <180004@nmsu-ee.UUCP> <698@unccvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: coffee@aero.UUCP (Peter C. Coffee)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: 123 1-2-3 plot log
Summary: Suppress scales with Graph Options Scale [X|Y] Format Hidden

In article <698@unccvax.UUCP> cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes:
>In article <180004@nmsu-ee.UUCP>, rusty@nmsu-ee.UUCP (Rusty Baldwin) writes:
>> lotus...log-log plots...Is there a way...?
>
>...simply use the @log() function..and...state in the legend...

I think we can do a little better than this: take the log, but suppress the
scales with /Graph Options Scale [X Scale | YScale] Format Hidden; then use
a spare range like F with appropriate data points to draw grid lines, for
example, at 10-20-50-100... intervals and use /Data Labels to label the lines
accordingly. The labels will be inside the boundaries, but properly done this
can still look pretty good. I assume this is worth this much trouble? P.S.:
if you didn't know, pairs of values with empty cells between them can be used
to draw arbitrary line segments in a 1-2-3 XY plot. Handy.