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Re: improving axes property behavior for the gnuplot backend
From: |
dbateman |
Subject: |
Re: improving axes property behavior for the gnuplot backend |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:09 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:31:21PM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> Ok. I was a bit confused by gnuplot's (v 4.3) description of what size
> XX,YY did.
>
> ----------------------------
> set size <XX>, <YY> scales the plot itself relative to the size of the
> canvas. Scale values less than 1 will cause the plot to not ???ll the
> entire canvas. Scale values larger than 1 will cause only a portion of
> the plot to ???t on the canvas. Please be aware that setting scale
> values larger than 1 may cause problems on some terminal types.
>
> The major exception to this convention is the PostScript driver, which
> by default continues to act as it has in earlier versions. Be warned
> that the next version of gnuplot may change the default behaviour of
> the PostScript driver as well.
> ----------------------------
>
> When I tried using it, I found for the x11, aqua, and wxt terminals
> that "the plot itself" excluded the ticklabels, axislabels, and title.
> I hadn't tried it out postscript, which apparently does something
> different (I don't know what), but also appears to be one of the
> better implementations.
>
> In any event, when I get to rendering the axes, I'll use gnuplot's
> "set margin".
Ok, then this is a change in the behavior of "set size" command with
gnuplot 4.3.. The old behavior was as I described.. So eventually we can use
"set size" as you suggest, but not yet.
Regards
David