Re: desired features for gp backend?

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Jun-2009, Rob Mahurin wrote:

| Here's an example I've been thinking about for a while: I'd like  
| enough control over Octave's axes to make Tufte's "dot-dash" and  
| "range-frame" plots.  There are currently examples of each at
|       http://hupp.org/adam/weblog/category/tufte/
| 
| I can do the dot-dash axes in gnuplot with "set border 0" followed by  
| "set xtics (...data...)" to put major and minor tics in the right  
| place.  But in gnuplot, constructing a command from a datafile is  
| something of a major undertaking.  In octave it's now a one-liner
|       set(gca,"xticks", get(get(gca,"children"),"xdata"))
| but that currently puts a label at every point without some clever set 
| (gca,"xticklabel"), and apparently I can't yet specify minor ticks.

Do you mean that it is not currently possible to specify minor tick
labels, or the locations of minor ticks?  Is this a limitation in
Octave only, or also Matlab?

| It looks like I even sent a patch suggesting an octave syntax for  
| axis ticks without lines, but it wasn't accepted:
|       http://www.nabble.com/axis-manipulations-in-plots-are-unnecessarily- 
| restrictive-td15880016.html

There were a number of replies to your orignal message, and it was
some time ago.  So if there is still something that was not done or
does not work now, please submit a new patch or bug report.

jwe