Cfrgtkky

Let's suppose that I want to put a neat graph of the sinus function in my document. Its source code is:

documentclass{standalone}



usepackage{pgfplots}

usepackage{tikz}



usetikzlibrary{calc}



begin{document}



begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis}[

xmin=-11, xmax=11,

ymin=-1.2, ymax=1.2,

grid=both,

axis lines=middle,

minor tick num=9,

axis line style={latex-latex},

ticklabel style={font=tiny},

axis equal

]



addplot[line width=0.7pt, blue, samples=500][domain=-11:11]{sin((x*180)/pi)};



end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}



end{document}

And it produces the following result:

So far so good. But let's say I want to cram my graph into a single page nicely, without it taking too much space. For this reason, I want to "cut" y axis on both sides, in other words, I want to force the graph to only be rendered on an interval (a,b) (on y axis) without changing the aspect ratio of the graph or its size.

For this purpose, I wrote ymin=-1.2, ymax=1.2, as you can see in my MWE. But this has no effect on the graph! Why? I searched the internet for a solution to my problem for a long time, but found none.

Please, provide me a technique with which I will be able to achieve this task. This goes for limiting the interval on which the whole axis is rendered for x axis as well, not just y axis (which won't be used in this case, but could definitely be useful in my future endeavours). Thank you in advance!

The reason ymin/ymax doesn't work is I think that you have axis equal, and you haven't changed the width/height of the axis, so the default size is used.

If you remove axis equal the y-limits will apply, but the x and y unit vectors will not be equal, which you want, if I understand correctly.

So instead try setting the size, by adding something like width=10cm,height=4cm to the axis options.

documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}



usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis}[

xmin=-11, xmax=11,

ymin=-1.2, ymax=1.2,

width=10cm,height=4cm,

grid=both,

axis lines=middle,

minor x tick num=9,

minor y tick num=2,

axis line style={latex-latex},

ticklabel style={font=tiny},

axis equal

]



addplot[line width=0.7pt, blue, samples=500, domain=-11:11]{sin((x*180)/pi)};



end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}



end{document}

Use axis equal image instead of axis equal.

documentclass[border=3mm]{standalone}

usepackage{pgfplots}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{calc}



begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis}[

xmin=-11, xmax=11,

ymin=-2, ymax=2,

grid=both,

axis lines=middle,

minor x tick num=9,

minor y tick num=1,

axis line style={latex-latex},

ticklabel style={font=tiny},

axis equal image

]

addplot[line width=0.7pt, blue, samples=500][domain=-11:11]{sin((x*180)/pi)};

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}