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I have a plot with some error bars generated with this code, but the error bars are messed up.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\pgfplotsset{
every axis/.append style={
scale only axis,   
},
/tikz/every picture/.append style={
baseline,
trim axis left,
trim axis right,
    }
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[%
width=4.5in,
height=3.5in,
scale only axis,
xmode=log,
xmin=0.001,
xmax=1,
xminorticks=true,
ymin=0,
ymax=250
]
\addplot [color=blue,solid,forget plot]
 plot [error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit]
 table[row sep=crcr, y error plus index=2, y error minus index=3]{0.0625469 25.07   0.25    0.25\\
0.0390918   54.77   0.649999999999999   0.649999999999999\\
0.0244324   154.33  1.5 1.5\\
0.0152702   200 5.5 5.5\\
0.00954391  208.67  5.5 5.5\\
0.00596494  215.33  6   6\\
0.00372809  219 2.5 2.5\\
0.00233006  220.67  5   5\\
0.00145628  221 1.5 1.5\\
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}

plot

But if I remove

\pgfplotsset{
every axis/.append style={
scale only axis,   
},
/tikz/every picture/.append style={
baseline,
trim axis left,
trim axis right,
    }
}

It looks fine. The problem is like that pgfplotset command early in my document to control all alignment and axis trimming. Any solutions?

Thanks

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Move the arguments trim axis left and trim axis right from the pgfplotsset to the tikzpicture environment:

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Code

\documentclass[border=1cm]{standalone}%{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\pgfplotsset{
every axis/.append style={
scale only axis,   
},
/tikz/every picture/.append style={
baseline,
    }
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[trim axis left,
trim axis right]
\begin{axis}[%
width=4.5in,
height=3.5in,
scale only axis,
xmode=log,
xmin=0.001,
xmax=1,
xminorticks=true,
ymin=0,
ymax=250
]
\addplot [color=blue,solid,forget plot]
 plot [error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit]
 table[row sep=crcr, y error index=2, y error index=3]{0.0625469 25.07   0.25    0.25\\
0.0390918   54.77   0.649999999999999   0.649999999999999\\
0.0244324   154.33  1.5 1.5\\
0.0152702   200 5.5 5.5\\
0.00954391  208.67  5.5 5.5\\
0.00596494  215.33  6   6\\
0.00372809  219 2.5 2.5\\
0.00233006  220.67  5   5\\
0.00145628  221 1.5 1.5\\
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}
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  • Whats with the \[ when you meant just [? Also, might be useful to consider automating this solution as it seems the OP always wants those options.
    – Peter Grill
    May 23, 2014 at 5:12
  • @PeterGrill -- I don't know why it gets there, my PC does not have it. I will re-post it soon.
    – Jesse
    May 23, 2014 at 5:13
  • @Jesse Hi, thanks yes this does work. It is probably the solution but as mentioned by Peter it would be nice if I can globally define trim axis left and right in the preamble. Thanks
    – Steve Hatcher
    May 23, 2014 at 6:21
  • @SteveHatcher -- Actually, in your current setting, mark out trim axis left would work too in my exhausted test. I observed trim left is the culprit because if you mark out the other one and leave trim left alone, the problem persists. To me that is not logic, so I proposed the current solution, moving them to the tikz environment. Hope this info helps.
    – Jesse
    May 23, 2014 at 6:53

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