
The Zoom Sub-menu
The next menu key we’ll examine is
. Pressing the key under
pops up a new menu, shown right.
The list which follows covers the purpose of the first nine options shown
right, down to “Set Factors”.
The four final options which follow these are also on the
VIEWS
menu
and are covered on page 85 as part of the detailed examination of the
VIEWS
menu.
Center
This redraws the graph with proportionally the same scale for each axis but re-centered around the current
position of the cursor. If you already have a ‘nice’ scale, this will preserve it, while perhaps showing a more
interesting section of graph.
In/Out
These two options zoom in or out by adjusting the scales by the factor shown. The default factor is 4 for both
axes but this can be adjusted through the
Set Zoom Factor
option later in the menu. The most useful settings
are either 5x5 or 2x2 as these are more likely to preserve nice scales.
Box…
commands. When you choose this
option a message will appear at the bottom of the screen asking you to
Select first corner
.
This is the most useful of the
If you use the arrow keys to move the cursor to one corner of a rectangle
containing the part of the graph you want to zoom into and then press
ENTER
, the message will change to
Select second corner
.
positioned at one
The cursor is
corner of a box.
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