[pstricks] Special Labels with \psaxes

[Michael Sharpe]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  Example 6-1-27 (page 322) of TLGC2 redefines \pshlabels as months rather
> than as numbers.
> 
>  I want to label the x axis with 35 dates (01-Dec-2008 through
> 04-Jan-2009). They are currently in a comma-separated list in the file named
> xlab.dat. What approach (arrayjob or listing all in \ifcase#1 as in the
> example) would be most efficient and appropriate for this situation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

Rich,

In my opinion, arrayjob, or its latest incarnation, arrayjobx, is better suited for the labels. When reading an array, arrayjob[x] expects & as data separator rather than comma, and its easiest to a global search and replace on the data file to manage this.  Then a simple \multido with \uput should allow you to write all the labels efficiently.

Michael