[comp.text.tex] loglog paper with PicTeX ?

mikew@wrc.unr.edu (11/22/90)

Just fooling around (trying to lower my productivity level) I
decided to make semilog and loglog graph paper using PicTeX.

The semilog (4-cycle) paper worked first time. The loglog
(3x3) paper worked but the 4x3 cycle loglog paper does not
draw the bottom axis grid lines all the way to the top! They
stop at the 3rd cycle on the y-axis.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong? The plain TeX file follows:
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% loglog paper   4-cycles on Y axis 3-cycles on X axis
%
% a plain TeX file that uses pictex
%
\nopagenumbers
\font\ninepoint=cmr9 % ninepoint roman
\input pictex
\beginpicture
\setcoordinatesystem units <140pt,140pt>
\setplotarea x from 0 to 3, y from 0 to 3
\ninepoint

\axis bottom ticks andacross logged numbered at 1 10 100 1000 /
	unlabeled short from 2 to 9 by 1 from 20 to 90 by 10
		from 200 to 900 by 100 
		length <0pt> from 1.5 to 9.5 by .5
		from 1.25 to 2.75 by .5
		from 15 to 95 by 5
		from 150 to 950 by 50
		from 125 to 375 by 50 
		at 1000 / /
\axis left ticks andacross logged numbered at 1 10 100 1000 10000 /
	unlabeled short from 2 to 9 by 1 from 20 to 90 by 10
		from 200 to 900 by 100 from 2000 to 9000 by 1000
		length <0pt> from 1.5 to 9.5 by .5
		from 1.25 to 2.75 by .5
		from 15 to 95 by 5
		from 150 to 950 by 50
		from 125 to 375 by 50  
		from 1500 to 9500 by 500
		from 1250 to 3750 by 500
		at 10000 /  /
\endpicture
\bye
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Below is 3-cycle by 3-cycle which works:

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% loglog paper 3x3
%
% a plain TeX file that uses pictex
%
\nopagenumbers
\font\ninepoint=cmr9 % ninepoint roman
\input pictex
\beginpicture
\setcoordinatesystem units <140pt,140pt>
\setplotarea x from 0 to 3, y from 0 to 3
\ninepoint
\axis bottom ticks andacross logged numbered at 1 10 100 1000 /
	unlabeled short from 2 to 9 by 1 from 20 to 90 by 10
		from 200 to 900 by 100 
		length <0pt> from 1.5 to 9.5 by .5
		from 1.25 to 2.75 by .5
		from 15 to 95 by 5
		from 150 to 950 by 50
		from 125 to 375 by 50 
		at 1000 / /
\axis left ticks andacross logged numbered at 1 10 100 1000  /
	unlabeled short from 2 to 9 by 1 from 20 to 90 by 10
		from 200 to 900 by 100 
		length <0pt> from 1.5 to 9.5 by .5
		from 1.25 to 2.75 by .5
		from 15 to 95 by 5
		from 150 to 950 by 50
		from 125 to 375 by 50  
		at 1000 /  /
\endpicture
\bye
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Any other graph-paper-from-(La)TeX files out there? Circular
or triangular graphs?

Thanks in advance.

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