Re: Patch to add axis position property

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Aug-2007, Peter Gustafson wrote:

| I see a problem (you may see many problems)... If two simultaneous axes
| are created with outer position [0 0 1 1], when plots are made to those
| axes they do not preserve the boundary positions.  Meaning the box in
| which the plot resides changes slightly depending on the labels etc that
| surround it.  So although it would be possible to define two full frame
| axes (one with x1y1, one with x1y2), it would still look bad.  Could
| this be overcome?  Is this why nobody else has done this yet.

That's a problem with gnuplot, but not necessarily with other plotting
libraries that we might use to implement the graphics backend.  I see
the gnuplot backend as a temporary solution, so I don't think it makes
a lot of sense to invest much more effort to extend it.

| What else would impair me from defining these as axes properties, and
| working it out that way?

I think the graphics properties need to be compatible with Matlab.

jwe