axis label position

[AM Cody]

The default position for axis labels in Mathematica is at the end of the axes. However, I need to make a plot with the x-axis label below the x axis and the y-axis to the left (not at the top). Is there some axes label format specification that controls this?

So far, I have found two potential solutions, and neither of them are ideal:

-I can instead use Text[] to put a label at the location of my choosing and then use Show[] to show the plot and the label together. The problem with this is that the plot axes get extended to accomodate these new graphics objects (the labels). I just want an x and y axis that begin at the origin and extend to positive values. Showing the labels makes them extend to negative values as well, which isn't very astheticaly pleasing.

-What I want to do also seems possible with Frame, since FrameLabel produces the kinds of labels that I want.
But to use frame I need to suppress the upper and right parts (i.e., so that I'm left with just an x and y axis). The command for this: Frame->{{True,False},{True,False}}
does not seem to work on the version of Mathematica (5.2) installed on this computer system.

Is there an easier/cleaner way to do this?

[Albert Retey]

using the correct syntax (it might not be obvious but I think is
documented) will make the Frame solution work (on every version since at
least 4.2):

Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}, Frame -> {True, True, False, False},
FrameLabel -> {"x", "y"}]

hth,

albert

[Bill Rowe]

On 4/15/09 at 5:00 AM, a...@astro.caltech.edu (AM Cody) wrote:

>The default position for axis labels in Mathematica is at the end of
>the axes. However, I need to make a plot with the x-axis label below
>the x axis and the y-axis to the left (not at the top). Is there
>some axes label format specification that controls this?

<snip>

>-What I want to do also seems possible with Frame, since FrameLabel
>produces the kinds of labels that I want. But to use frame I need to
>suppress the upper and right parts (i.e., so that I'm left with just
>an x and y axis). The command for this:
>Frame->{{True,False},{True,False}} does not seem to work on the
>version of Mathematica (5.2) installed on this computer system.

Instead of Frame->{{True,False},{True,False}} try Frame->{True,False,True,F=
alse}

[Bob Hanlon]

Plot[x, {x, 0, 1},
Frame -> {True, True, False, False},

FrameLabel -> {"x", "y"},
Axes -> False]

Bob Hanlon

---- AM Cody <a...@astro.caltech.edu> wrote:

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The default position for axis labels in Mathematica is at the end of the axes. However, I need to make a plot with the x-axis label below the x axis and the y-axis to the left (not at the top). Is there some axes label format specification that controls this?

So far, I have found two potential solutions, and neither of them are ideal:

-I can instead use Text[] to put a label at the location of my choosing and then use Show[] to show the plot and the label together. The problem with this is that the plot axes get extended to accomodate these new graphics objects (the labels). I just want an x and y axis that begin at the origin and extend to positive values. Showing the labels makes them extend to negative values as well, which isn't very astheticaly pleasing.

-What I want to do also seems possible with Frame, since FrameLabel produces the kinds of labels that I want.

But to use frame I need to suppress the upper and right parts (i.e., so that I'm left with just an x and y axis). The command for this: Frame->{{True,False},{True,False}}
does not seem to work on the version of Mathematica (5.2) installed on this computer system.

Is there an easier/cleaner way to do this?

[David Park]

I think that in Version 5.2 you can use Frame -> {True, True, False, False}.

David Park
djm...@comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/