Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 02/19/2013 04:33 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> There are at least two problems.  First, there is compatibility with Matlab, 
> and second, the output rendered by the print() function will be noticeably 
> different.
It is true that Matlab currently uses 0.5 fro the default.  But, they 
will likely need to do
something when their users notice that their axes are "missing."

And, I agree that the Manual needs improvement.  I have done some work 
on it,
but far from enough.

If the default is not changed it would be very useful if something could 
be done
to avoid users struggling with this.  There are users right now who 
believe, as I
did, that the problem is entirely due to FC18 (this, of course, is sort 
of true since
X11 (or whatever is deciding that the 0.5 width is sometimes invisible)
was changed for FC18).  But, the chance that FC18 will be changed back is,
I think not very big.  In the meantime; trouble.  I would suggest at 
least announcing
this problem in the NEWS for the next release, and include the fix to be 
put in .octaverc
for users who need it.

I will check on what this does to PDF output.


Michael