[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60433] legend with gnuplot

[Nicholas Jankowski]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60433>

                 Summary: legend with gnuplot 
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: nrjank
            Submitted on: Wed 21 Apr 2021 05:00:29 PM EDT
                Category: Plotting with gnuplot
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Nicholas Jankowski
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 6.2.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Apologies if this overlaps any of the other gnuplot legend bugs. A search
didn't show any that appeared to match. Apologies if this is a missed
duplicate.

Following on a question over in StackOverflow [1], there is a plotting bug
that only occurs with gnuplot, where the legend is improperly sized depending
(seemingly) only on whether the text is uppercase.  it appears to size the
legend based on lowercase text. A simple test case:



plot([1 2 3],[4 5 6], 'DisplayName','thisisaverylongname');legend

figure

plot([1 2 3],[4 5 6], 'DisplayName','THISISAVERYLONGNAME');legend



produces the attached image 

(file gnuplot_simplelabellengthtest.png)


Note that if a lower case name the same length as the upper case name above
has the legend box the correct size. (e.g., "thisisaverylongname1234" takes
about the same amount of space on the screen as "THISISAVERYLONGNAME", but the
former has a larger legend to accommodate it while the latter does not.

[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64986635/octave-box-legend-not-proper-width-with-upper-case-text



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