How do I change the interval on one of my axis at different points along the axis?

I'm currently plotting data but some of it is too condensed to visualize properly on the current scale. Here's what my plot looks like:

As you can see I attempted to use the xticks() and xtickslabel() functions on the left end of the axis but that only added ticks, not changed the interval. What I need to do is to have the range from 0.1-1 be the same distance as from 1-2, that way the condensed data on the left side can be expanded to better visualize what is occuring. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Maik]

You can try setting axes properties that should keep the scale.

x1 = 0:0.1:40;
y1 = cos(x1).^2;
x2 = 1:0.2:20;
y2 = sin(x2);

f = figure;
ax1 = axes(f);
plot(ax1,x1,y1,'-r')

% Plot second graph with different scale 
ax2 = axes(f);
plot(ax2,x2,y2,'-.b')

%% calling this property makes the axes hold 
ax2.Color = 'none';
%% 

ax1.FontSize = 8; 
ax1.XColor = 'r';
ax2.FontSize = 8;
ax2.XColor = 'b';

Answer 2

[Voss]

Maybe this will be good enough:

set(gca(),'XScale','log')