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4.4.3.2 Cartesian linear axes

For non-geographic axes, the BASEMAP_TYPE setting is implicitly set to plain. Other than that, cartesian linear axes are very similar to geographic axes. The annotation format may be controlled with the D_FORMAT parameter. By default, it is set to ``%g'', which is a C language format statement for floating point numbers4.7, and with this setting the various axis routines will automatically determine how many decimal points should be used by inspecting the stride settings. If D_FORMAT is set to another format it will be used directly (.e.g, ``%.2f'' for a fixed, two decimals format). Note that for these axes you may use the unit setting to add a unit string to each annotation (see Figure 4.8).

Figure 4.8: Linear Cartesian projection axis. Long tickmarks accompany annotations, shorter ticks indicate frame interval. The axis label is optional. We used -R0/12/0/1 -JX3/0.4 -Ba4f2g1:Frequency::,%:.

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