Re: Different tic sizes

[Dieter Britz]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:42:40 +0000, Dieter Britz wrote:

> I have some data where the x-axis is years. The range is [1989:2013].
> 
> I would like to have year numbers like 1990, 2000, 2010 with large tics
> at these numbers, but small tics for the whole range, as I would get
> with
> 
> xtics 1989, 1, 2013
> 
> How can this be done?

There is another problem. I once asked here about colouring
a plot, and got a recipe, which works fine. However, it seems
to erase tic marks. For example, I have

set xtics 1990, 5, 2010
set ytics 0, 100, 300
set obj rect from graph 0, graph 0 to graph 1, graph 1 back \
    fc rgb '#FFEFD5' fillstyle solid 0.5

and the numbers come out on both axes, but no tic marks. Is
this an effect of the set obj line?

-- 
Dieter Britz