Re: desired features for gp backend?

[Rob Mahurin]

On 14-Jun-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> | set(fig, 'postplot', 'set gnuplotfeature xyz; replot')
> | plot(x, y)
> |
> | might have value.

On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:14 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I have no interest in doing this because it ties your plotting
> commands to gnuplot, and introduces portability problems for people
> who don't want to use gnuplot for plotting.  I think it is much better
> to have Octave's plotting functions and properties be generic, and
> equally supported by all plotting backends.  If you want to use
> specific gnuplot features, I think the best solution is to write your
> data to a file and use gnuplot directly.

Here's a patch that does it anyway.  Example:
        addproperty("backend_tweak",gca,"string");
        set(gca,"backend_tweak","set border 8");

Cheers,
Rob

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Rob Mahurin
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