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Re: desired features for gp backend?
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Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: desired features for gp backend? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:42:35 -0400 |
On Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 10:24AM, "Daniel J Sebald" <address@hidden>
wrote:
>John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 17-Jun-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>
>> | What is important in my mind is an inroad to using
>> | more powerful features of the plotting engine. Why limit oneself to
>> | the capabilities of Matlab? A few hidden options having meaning
>> | only to the plotting engine seems plausible.
>>
>> By "the plotting engine" do you mean "a particular plotting engine"?
>> Since there can be more than one, then it seems to me these "hidden
>> options" will cause portability problems for code. You say the
>> options are "hidden", but if they are available, people will use them,
>> then complain later if we make some other plotting engine the default,
>> or if they try to share scripts with people who use an alternative
>> plotting engine that doesn't handle the special properties they are
>> using.
>
>True, but that's the user's problem to deal with. The situation is the same
>if I write code dependent on some function 'this_is_a_long_function_name(...)'
>and don't make that function available in the Octave distribution script tree.
>
>Maybe it is easiest just to write something like
>
>send_text_to_gnuplot_graphics_pipe(fig, 'set foo')
>
>where internally this function locates the appropriate pipe and simply sends
>some more text.
>
>Dan
Dan, with regards to gnuplot, what might you try to "set" that would change the
rendering?
Ben
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, (continued)
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, John W. Eaton, 2009/06/16
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Robert T. Short, 2009/06/16
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/06/17
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Robert T. Short, 2009/06/17
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, John W. Eaton, 2009/06/17
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Robert T. Short, 2009/06/17
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/06/18
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, John W. Eaton, 2009/06/18
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/06/18
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, John W. Eaton, 2009/06/18
- Re: desired features for gp backend?,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: desired features for gp backend?, Rob Mahurin, 2009/06/25
- Re: policy for release branch, Thomas Weber, 2009/06/14
- Re: policy for release branch, Robert T. Short, 2009/06/14