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Re: [Orgmode] Plotting date on xaxis
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Eric S Fraga |
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Re: [Orgmode] Plotting date on xaxis |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:11:18 +0000 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:33 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:
>
[...]
> > Well, good intentions is one thing, wrong behaviour is another? If
> > the user has specified "ind:1 deps:(2)", even if org-plot identifies
> > column 1 as having labels for the tic marks, the generated parameter
> > to the plot command should be, at best:
> >
> > ... using 1:2:xticlabels(1) ...
> >
>
> I just applied a patch which results in the above plotting command, and
> yields the following gnuplot error when the table contains an empty line
>
> "illegal day of month"
>
> which to me seems entirely appropriate.
It does indeed seem perfectly appropriate! Thanks.
> All of the plots form the org-plot page on worg still work with this
> patch (which amounts to org-plot's test suite), so I relatively
> confident that it shouldn't break any existing functionality.
>
> One problem with org-plot's attempt to guess the best action in each
> situation is that the code will get increasingly ugly as these corner
> cases continue to arise, and as that happens it becomes increasingly
> difficult to know a-priori if a patch will cause unforeseen problems.
Yes, I can imagine. I guess, for Johan's benefit, that it's best to
move on to org-babel for the more complex problems leaving the direct
gnuplot support for "simple" cases!
Thanks again,
eric