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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
User-agent: 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



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