GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 563850
Allow to specify the starting values when major ticks are set to 2 (or bigger)
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:02:22 UTC
When working with the xy-chart in Gnumeric I found myself several times willing to have an uneven starting number on the X-axis combined with major ticks that are set to the value "2". Obviously this could be handy for the Y-axis, too. Description: Imagine you want to visualise XY-values: x y 1995 1 1996 2 1997 3 ... Currently there there is no way to specify that the numbers of the x-axis start with the value 1995 - when major ticks are set to 2. From the UI-perspective the requested option should only appear when major ticks have values bigger than one. A toggle starting value button would be a handy solution. To illustrate the "problem" I will attach a small example-file. (Maybe it is just me but I would think that 2005 would be a natural starting point in this case). Right now it seems that when major ticks are set to 2 then only even numbered values are shown. Anyway, thanks a lot for providing Gnumeric!! I love the fact that all the properties can be manipulated at a single place.
Created attachment 124273 [details] Illustration of the "problem"
Created attachment 165936 [details] Gnumeric test file It can be done if you use dates for the X-axis. Sample attached.
The example probably requires 1.10.x in order to produce a good result. I am keeping this bug report open because I cannot convince myself that this problem only occurs for dates. Note, that it is possible to set minor ticks for months. A step-size of 30 will do that even though months have different lengths.
*** Bug 576000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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