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The chart axes can be set independently with a variety of custom effects. The options shown here apply to the vertical axes.
ch.Set 'ystyle' 'grid,atend,mintick'
Options
| forcezero:noforce | Axis must include zero in range |
| exact:extend | Axis will not be rounded up to the next whole tick mark |
| axis:plain:invisible:noaxis | Axis style (normal, unlabelled, hidden but labelled, not drawn) |
| left:right:duplicate | Axis placement |
| ntick:ptick:xtick:notick | Tick mark style |
| invert:noinvert | Scale increments downwards |
| atside:atend;centre | Caption placement (vertical) |
| move:stay | Ticks and labels move with intercept axes |
| linear:log:latitude | Data transformation and label type |
| date:nodate | Convert the integer part of numbers to date format |
| time:notime | Convert the fractional part of numbers to times (HH:MM) |
| grid:nogrid | Draw grid lines at major ticks |
| mtick:nomtick | Add default minor tick marks |
| labels:nolabels | Omit labels if required |
| flat:noflat | Force flat captions and labels on 3D charts |
| arrow:noarrow | Add arrowheads at axis extremities |
| clip:noclip | Clip axis and plotted data at first and last tick mark. Lines will be broken at the chart edge; markers outside the chart edge are not drawn |
Options in bold are the normal defaults. See Tick Marks for examples of the various styles.
Note that you would normally use the ‘invert’ option in conjunction with xstyle 'top'.
See also ...
Using Timescale Axes
YTickmarks – Y-tick marks