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30 questions linked to/from Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?
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Set thickness for frame, axes, plot globally [duplicate]
I have many ListPlot and ListLinePlot in my notebook.
I each command I have added ...
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Custom named plot themes? [duplicate]
Is there a way for a user to define a custom named plot theme (in V11) and then see it show up as an option?
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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?
I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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How do I evaluate only one step of an expression?
I am looking for a simple, robust way to evaluate an expression only one step, and return the result in a held form.
The definition of a single step is ambiguous, and this itself is probably worthy ...
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Export Plots to $\LaTeX$
What is the quickest and best way to export a plot image from Mathematica to a $\LaTeX$ Editor? Is there something quicker than exporting it to an image and then including it in the $\LaTeX$ document?
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How to change the default ColorData used in Mathematica's Plot?
This question leads on from the recent question What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica?
There it was determined that the default color palette used by ...
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How to access new colour schemes in version 10?
Many colour schemes and colour functions can be accessed using ColorData.
Version 10 introduced new default colour schemes, and a new customization option using <...
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SetOptions locally?
Is there a way to SetOptions locally? For example, I have a Module and inside it I am doing a lot of ...
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Specifying non-conflicting PlotTheme options
A bug or limitation in 10.0.0 affects a few of these examples; it was resolved in 10.1.0.
I am trying out Mathematica 10 on https://programming.wolframcloud.com. ...
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How to get grid lines at all (log) tick marks in Version 10?
Bug introduced in 10.0.0 and fixed in 10.1.0
Update:
It seems that only versions 10.0.0, 10.0.1, and 10.0.2 are affected by this problem.
For 10.0.0 there is no general solution known to me due to ...
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Custom functions by delegating options in a specific way and using core functions
I'd like to create a custom function that does essentially the same as a core function of mathematica but uses different default settings.
Example: I want a Plot function that uses Mathematica's core ...
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Match colors to plot themes
How do I get the colors to match the plot theme when I use a PlotLegend that is separate to the plots?
I have had a look at How to access new colour schemes in ...
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Replicating a PlotStyle from Trees, Maps, and Theorems
How might I make a plot with this style, where the callouts are on the side and the y-axes chopped off for a minimal look?
Here's some example data with the callout that I'd like to add, but I'm not ...
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How to specify custom graph styles for GraphStyle?
There is a way to specify custom themes for plots (Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?), but themes do not apply to Graph objects, not even to ...
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Line style thickness differences between Mathematica 9 and 10
I execute the same code in Mathematica 9 and MAthematica 10, and have this different results.
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globally turn off plot markers for `ListLinePlot` under “Monochrome” theme
Choosing the "Monochrome" theme surprisingly (bug?) adds plot markers to ListLinePlot. I would like to turn this off globally. (Specifically, I want to set ...
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Why does `Block` reset `Attributes`?
Not even "formal symbols" such as \[FormalX] are guaranteed to always be symbolic. Their Protected argument is forgotten when ...
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1answer
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DensityPlot with equal mesh and a certain boundary
I would like to have a plot like the following:
However, with my code:
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Extracting Color Options from BarChart
I would like to extract the colors (i.e., obtain RGBColor[] or other full specification) of the different colors used in a bar chart such as this
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Shading a sector of a polar graph
This explains how to shade a region between two polar graphs. Unfortunately my mathematica-fu is too weak to see how it would be used to shade one sector of a single polar graph. Any suggestions, ...
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1answer
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Plotting: Change colour scheme and line thickness at the same time
Some stylistic attributes of plots are independent of colour, e.g. thickness, dashing, etc.
I can make the lines thick in this plot without having to specify a separate style for each line:
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1answer
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default color scheme in `Histogram` in version 10 [duplicate]
I need to use the default scheme of Histogram in version 10 but cannot get this information.
I know the default scheme used in ...
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1answer
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Override a PlotTheme element at the Options level?
Edit: I am still using version 10.1; has anything changed by 11.0.1?
Plot properties defined in a Theme override (supersede) properties defined on Options.
This ...
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Replacement Rule Line Thickness
I have a plot with imported data that I have used a replacement rule to make the data a line rather than individual points. However, I want to increase the thickness of that line. How do I do this? I ...
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1answer
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Assign Plot options
Is it possible to assign a couple of Plot options like e.g.
Frame -> True, PlotRange -> All, ImageSize -> 500
to a ...
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1answer
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What's the best way of setting global defaults for my Plots?
Obviously there are many ways to change the global settings, such as $PlotTheme or SetOptions[], but what I'm looking for is a ...
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1answer
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Plot GridLines not displaying
GridLines not rendering. Tried changing Background to White and GridLines to Black to see if they render at all but they do not. How do I make GridLines render and can these PlotStyles and settings ...
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1answer
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easy modification of existing theme
For the most part, the "Monochrome" theme is useful. However the default inclusion of plot markers in a ListLinePlot was imo a horrible mistake (a design bug), ...
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1answer
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Better automatic style selection for many distinct series in one plot?
The default style selection of ListLinePlot makes it hard to tell things apart, is there some easy way to apply a better (automatically chosen) set of distinct ...
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Graphics options defined as a set [duplicate]
I need to use almost the same options for several graphics, and would like to simplify the code which is becoming pretty large. The example below should work, but it doesn't for a reason I don't see.
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