How to hide y-axis in Cetz Plot to make a timeline?

Questions
1

I’d like to hide the y-axis in order to make a timeline with Cetz Plot

Something like:
Screenshot 2025-05-15 at 15.12.22

2

This is what I have so far:

#cetz.canvas({
    import cetz.draw: *
    import cetz-plot: *

    plot.plot(
      size: (14,2),
      axis-style: "school-book",
      x-tick-step: none, 
      y-tick-step: none, 
      x-ticks: ((1, []), (2, []), (3, [])),
      x-label: [time],
      y-label: none,
      x-min: 0, x-max: 3,
      y-min: -1, y-max: 1,
      axes: (
        stroke: black,
        tick: (stroke: black),
      ),
      name: "plot",
    {
      plot.add(((0,0), (3,0)), style: (stroke: black))
      plot.add-anchor("production", (1.1,0))
      plot.add-anchor("sales", (1.9,0))
      
      plot.add-anchor("beginning-inventory", (1,-0.25))
      plot.add-anchor("ending-inventory", (2,-0.25))

      plot.annotate({
        content((0.5, -0.5), [day $t - 1$])
      })

      plot.annotate({
        content((1.5, -0.5), [day $t$])
      })
      plot.annotate({
        content((2.5, -0.5), [day $t + 1$])
      })
      
    }
  )
  line("plot.production", ((), "|-", (0, 1.5)), mark: (start: ">", fill: black), name: "productionline")
  content("productionline.end", [production], anchor: "south", padding: .1)

  line("plot.sales", ((), "|-", (0, 1.5)), mark: (start: ">", fill: black), name: "salesline")
  content("salesline.end", [sales], anchor: "south", padding: .1)
  
  line("plot.beginning-inventory", ((), "|-", (0, 0.1)), mark: (start: ">", fill: black), name: "beginning-inventoryline")
  content("beginning-inventoryline.end", [beginning\ inventory], anchor: "north", padding: 0.1)
  
  line("plot.ending-inventory", ((), "|-", (0, 0.1)), mark: (start: ">", fill: black), name: "ending-inventoryline")
  content("ending-inventoryline.end", [beginning\ inventory], anchor: "north", padding: 0.1)
  })

I would like to hide the y-axis

3

You can hide it by setting the stroke thickness to 0:

set-style(axes: (y: (stroke: 0pt)))

Setting stroke: none does not work for some reason (bug).

4

But why are you also setting the black color?

5

Because I did not know you could pass a length.

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6

But you are the package author. Some packages do require passing color and thickness.

7

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