OK, I got somewhere - except the I cannot get the plots' combined width to fit within the margins (hope someone will offer a solution for that):
Otherwise:
- Aligning the xlabel, ylabel: is a bit of a pain; note the manual states:
The starred versions . . . line* only affect the axis lines, without correcting the positions of axis labels, tick lines or other keys which are (possibly) affected by a changed axis line.
which in this case means that I should first set axis y line=middle to set the label position as I want it, then re-set with axis y line*=left afterwards, so only the axis position changes (this also adds the 0 as ytick label)
the zero to appear as first x axis tick label on the left-hand plot - similarly, by "overloading" with axis x line*=bottom
the zero to disappear as first y axis tick label on the right-hand plot - somewhat tricky, but seems that only thing that works, is "overloading" yticklabel and setting a conditional command via \ifnum in there, that uses \ticknum (which apparently starts from 1).
the axes tick label font - the problem is that by default, pgfplots typesets axes tick labels in math mode; as example - I've left the yticklabel overload so it typesets the number directly, and it can be seen it is in Times. Otherwise, Change font also on axes in pgfplots explains that an additional package has to be loaded to use Times as math font, and for me \usepackage{txfonts} works (though I bumped in the problem described in Local font installation problems, and the solution there worked for me).
auto xshift of scope: a similar problem is noted in pgfplots - Positioning a tikz scope relative to another tikz scope. This is not quite auto, but I use half of \textwidth minus half of intended separation to set the width of a plot; as it can be seen from the image, it's almost there but not quite right with the margins; will probably have to test the suggestion of @JohnKormylo, too
And here is the code:
\documentclass[%
12pt,
journal,
twoside,
draftcls,
letterpaper,
]{IEEEtran}
% \usepackage{txfonts} % Times font in math;
% tlmgr install txfonts ; texhash ; updmap-sys --enable Map=txfonts.map ; texhash
% [rm ~/.texlive2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map]
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning} % of
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33703/extract-x-y-coordinate-of-an-arbitrary-point-in-tikz
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\gettikzxy}[3]{%
\tikz@scan@one@point\pgfutil@firstofone#1\relax
\edef#2{\the\pgf@x}%
\edef#3{\the\pgf@y}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\newlength{\pw}
\setlength{\pw}{0.5\textwidth}
\addtolength{\pw}{-0.5cm}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotstableread[col sep=&,row sep=\\]{
0.0159779999812599 & 0.00398599999607541 \\
0.0240009999834001 & 0.00802300000214018 \\
0.0240489999996498 & 4.80000162497163e-05 \\
0.0280280000006314 & 0.00397900000098161 \\
}\mytable
\begin{scope}[local bounding box=scope1]
\begin{axis}[
title={\small my data},
title style={at={(0.5,0.9)},anchor=center},
clip=true,
width=\pw,
axis x line=middle,
axis y line=middle,
axis x line*=bottom,
xmin = 0,
xmax = 0.03,
ymin = 0,
ymax = 0.009,
xlabel={$t$\,[ms]},
xlabel style={at={(axis description cs:1.01,+0.0)},anchor=west},
ylabel={$D$},
ylabel style={at={(axis description cs:-0.02,1.01)},anchor=south},
scaled x ticks=base 10:3,
xtick scale label code/.code={},
x tick label style={
rotate=-45,
anchor=west,
/pgf/number format/fixed,
/pgf/number format/fixed zerofill,
/pgf/number format/precision=3,
},
ymajorticks=true,
yminorticks=false,
tick label style={font=\small,},
legend cell align=left,
legend pos=outer north east,
]
\addplot table \mytable;
\end{axis}
\end{scope}
\gettikzxy{($(scope1.east)+(1cm,0)$)}{\ax}{\ay}
% none of this works:
% \begin{scope}[remember picture,at={($(scope1.east)+(1cm,0)$)}]%right=of scope1.east]%[at={($(scope1.east)+(1cm,0)$)}]
% ... only xshift:
\begin{scope}[xshift=\ax]
\begin{axis}[
title={\small my data},
title style={at={(0.5,0.9)},anchor=center},
clip=true,
width=\pw,
axis x line=middle,
axis y line=middle,
axis x line*=bottom,
axis y line*=left,
xmin = -0.005,
xmax = 0.025,
ymin = 0,
ymax = 0.009,
xlabel={$t$\,[ms]},
xlabel style={at={(axis description cs:1.01,+0.0)},anchor=west},
ylabel={$D$},
ylabel style={at={(axis description cs:-0.02,1.01)},anchor=south},
scaled x ticks=base 10:3,
xtick scale label code/.code={},
x tick label style={
rotate=-45,
anchor=west,
/pgf/number format/fixed,
/pgf/number format/fixed zerofill,
/pgf/number format/precision=3,
},
%yticklabel={\ifnum\ticknum=1{}\else\axisdefaultticklabel\fi},
yticklabel={\ifnum\ticknum=1{}\else\tick\fi},
ymajorticks=true,
yminorticks=false,
tick label style={font=\small,},
legend cell align=left,
legend pos=outer north east,
]
\addplot table \mytable;
\end{axis}
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
I do not know why that syntax doesn't work, but you can use the syntax of the calc library. While not exactly the same, it does allow you to place axes relative to other nodes/coordinates. Note that the default anchor for the axis is south west, change that if desirable.
In the code below I used at={($(nodeOne)+(0cm,1.5cm)$)}. When no anchor for the node is supplied (e.g. nodeOne.west), the center anchor is assumed. As you can see, the lower left corner (anchor=south west) of the axis is 1.5cm above the center of nodeOne.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,calc}
\pagecolor{yellow!15}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzset{
nn/.style={rectangle,draw,minimum width=4cm,minimum height=2cm,line width=1pt,inner sep=0pt},
ni/.style={rectangle,draw,minimum width=2cm,minimum height=2cm,draw=red}}
\node[nn,anchor=south west] (nodeOne) at (0,0) {One};
\node[nn,rotate=90] (nodeTwo) [right=6cm of nodeOne] {\emph{Two}} ;
\node[ni]
(nodeIndicator) [above right=0cm and 1.5cm of nodeOne] {} ;
\begin{axis}[%
at={($(nodeOne)+(0cm,1.5cm)$)},
anchor=south west,
inner sep=0pt,
width=4cm,
height=3cm,
scale only axis
]
\addplot coordinates { (0,0) (1,1) } ;
\end{axis}
% graphical rulers in tikz - via grid:
% x ruler:
\draw[red] (0,0) grid[step=1cm] ({current bounding box.east|-(0cm,0.5cm);});
% y ruler:
\draw[red] (0,0) grid[step=1cm] ({current bounding box.north-|(0.5cm,0cm);});
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Pgfplots has builtin support for one axis which receives tick labels. If you want tick labels on both sides of an axis, you can either post a feature request at sourceforge and wait for its resolution or generate a second axis for the opposite site.
Here is a solution for the approach with a second axis:
As you see, I extracted common options using a
\pgfplotssetand wrote two axis environments. In addition, I automatically remembered the axis limits of the first axis and replicated them in the second. Note that theset layersstatement synchronizes the layers of the two axes which is convenient especially if you plan to add grid lines. The solution currently draws the axis paths twice (except for the labels). That could be improved by means ofaxis linesstatements.Concerning your question about "trimming": could you add more details on what you mean here?