Re: Lining up the axes of multiplots/subplots

[Joseph Wakeling]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> Right.  In the future, mixing higher-level plotting commands and
> sending commands directly to gnuplot will have even more unpredictible
> results than they do now.

This seems rather disturbing.  Is achieving compatibility between Octave
commands and raw gnuplot commands an objective or not?

> We will probably make it easier to communicate directly with gnuplot
> by allowing you to do the things that are outlined in the second
> message linked above, but you will have to assume complete
> responsibility of the plot as mixing arbitrary calls to
> __gnuplot_raw__ with the higher-level plotting commands will not
> work.  Given that, I wonder why one would not simply write out data
> files and then run gnuplot separately.

Well, speaking as a user, you'd want to do it for convenience.  If I can
write a script in Octave to analyse data, and another to plot it, all
from one command line ...