Re: autoscale.dem failing, left margin not working

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 03/12/2011 12:36 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday, March 12, 2011, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> I grabbed the most recent version of the SourceForge gnuplot tree via
>> tar-ball.
>
>> From where?
> We provide no such tarball.

It's part of SourceForge, isn't it?  At least I think that is what the 
"Download GNU tarball" feature of SourceForge is supposed to be:

http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/

It seems to bundle all the files for the user.

If I followed the discussion of a couple months ago correctly, 
SourceForge is no longer supporting CVS.  (All the commands that I've 
tried aren't working.)


>> It has directory names with "4.5", but upon compiling and
>> running, I see "4.4":
>>
>> 	G N U P L O T
>> 	Version 4.4 patchlevel 0
>> 	last modified March 2010
>> 	System: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686
>>
>> Anyway, the autoscale.dem demo is failing:
>>
>> gnuplot>  load 'autoscale.dem'
>>
>> gnuplot>  set yrange [*<-5:5<*]
>
> That is a new syntax from 4.5, but it seems you are running some
> [perhaps modified] variant of version 4.4

Oh, thanks.  I found the issue.  I didn't fully install the compiled 
code and must have mistyped the path to the executable file.  Fixing 
that, this demo works fine now.


>> A second issue is that the left margin no longer works properly.  Try
>> the 'key.dem' demo and it should be apparent.  There are some other
>> demos where the plot edge for the left margin is not computed correctly.
>
> I haven't found any where the left margin of the plot itself is incorrect.
> The placement of the key box is non-obvious or incorrect in some of the
> examples. Not sure whether this is because it's mis-estimating to left
> margin or the font size or what.

This issue is still present.  It must have come about before 4.4.

Check the example with "Key (out vert left top)" as a title of the 
upper-left sub-plot.  The key used to be outside the actual sub-plot, 
but the sub-plot margin is too small.  It should look like a mirror of 
the example "Key (out vert right top)".

Dan