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Apparently, BarLegend in version 10 displays tick legends in scientific notation when they are smaller in magnitude than 0.01. For instance,

BarLegend[{"Rainbow", {-.015, .015}}, 
LabelStyle -> Directive[Black, Bold, FontSize -> 12]]

creates the object

enter image description here

How can I change the tick labels to decimal notation, as they would have appeared in version 9?

By the way, the Bold directive evidently is being ignored. Is there a work-around for this?

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    $\begingroup$ Just had a look at examples in the docs and LabelStyle looks very buggy. You shouldn't need to explicitly use FontSize, the number should be sufficient -- but it is not. As you say Bold is not recognised, nor is FontWeight->Bold. $\endgroup$ – Mike Honeychurch Jul 17 '14 at 22:28
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    $\begingroup$ Seems to work OK in 10.0.1 $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd C. de Vries Sep 17 '14 at 13:51
  • $\begingroup$ @Sjoerd Confirmed. $\endgroup$ – Mr.Wizard Sep 17 '14 at 14:05
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Two work-arounds:

(1) Use TickLabels

BarLegend[{"Rainbow", {-0.015, 0.015}}, ImageSize->300,
  Charting`TickLabels -> 
  (Style[NumberForm[#, {Infinity, 3}],Bold,Black,12] & /@ Range[-.015, .015, .005])]

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(2) Use LabelingFunction:

BarLegend[{"Rainbow", {-0.015, 0.015}}, ImageSize->300, 
    LabelingFunction -> (Style[NumberForm[#, {Infinity,3}],Bold, Black,12] &)]
(* same picture *)

Note: Just to make the labels Bold the option combination BaseStyle->Directive[Bold,12], LabelStyle->Black also works.

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  • $\begingroup$ Despite the fact that Mathematica flags ImageSize, BaseStyle, LabelingFunction, and Charting`TickLabels as unknown option names, both of your recommendations work well. Thanks, @kguler. $\endgroup$ – bbgodfrey Jul 18 '14 at 14:17
  • $\begingroup$ @bbgodfrey, thank you for the accept. $\endgroup$ – kglr Jul 18 '14 at 22:29
  • $\begingroup$ Version 10.0.1 appears to resolve the issues described above. $\endgroup$ – bbgodfrey Nov 16 '14 at 18:20

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