Re: 'interpreter' property for line, patch, surf objects?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On Jul 28, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Rik wrote:

> 7/28/13
>
> All,
>
> I alphabetized the list of graphic properties for each object and added
> properties that Matlab has added since this exercise was last done.
>
> One difference I noted is that Octave has an interpreter property for
> 'axes', 'line', 'patch', and 'surf' objects.  Having the property for axes
> is actually a great improvement over Matlab where getting axis tick marks
> to have special characters like greek symbols is a huge effort.  But, I
> can't really see the reason for having it for line, patch, and surf
> objects.  Is there something I'm missing here?  Otherwise, I think I would
> delete them.
>
> --Rik

I hadn't even noticed the interperter property was present for line, patch, and surf.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/47c919254791

Glancing at the changeset above, suggest that jwe or Michael may know the history.

This doesn't ring any bell to me. But a wild guess: given the position of the new properties, after the "keylabel" property, this might be related to how legend is implemented in the gnuplot backend, and the interpreter property actually refers to the text objects in the legend.

Michael.