Re: axis square

[Marco Caliari]

> On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Marco Caliari wrote:
>
> > Dear maintainers,
> >
> > the enclosed patch (against 3.1.54) makes "axis square" to behave in a 
> > compatible way and as described in the documentation. I also modified the 
> > demo, since "axis normal", "axis square", "axis equal" should appear after 
> > a plot command in order to take effect (this is also a compatible 
> > behaviour). Please consider to apply this patch.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Marco<axis.m.patch>
>
> Marco,
>
> If I understand correctly, the "square" and "equal" options need to be 
> switched.

Dear Ben,

I don't think so. If you use "axis square" it means you want the plot in a 
square box.

> If you modify the demos so that the "plot(...)" commands precede the 
> "axes(...)" and "title(...)" commands the problem should be clear.
>
> Also, it appears to me that the "dataaspectratio" for "equal" ("square" in 
> your diff) should be set as ...
>
>   elseif  (strcmp (ax, "equal"))
>     x = xlim;
>     y = ylim;
>     set (ca, "dataaspectratio", [(x(2)-x(1)), (y(2)-y(1)), 1]);

I modified into

   elseif  (strcmp (ax, "square"))
     x = xlim;
     y = ylim;
     set (ca, "dataaspectratio", [(y(2)-y(1)), (x(2)-x(1)), 1]);


Marco

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