Re: [GLE-general] xlabels log new option (patch)

[Luca D. <do...@gm...>]

Dear Jan

>> However, I also understand the need of compatibility with previous
>> scripts, so I don't know if changing the default behaviour could be a good
>> idea.
>
> I think the problem that you could not turn on the log subticks without
> turning on the sublabels was a bug and this should be fixed. Besides that,
> we should try to keep compatibility as much as possible.
>
> The idea is now that if you start with a log scale axis and you have neither
> *labels nor *subticks options that you get the default, which is draw log
> subticks and log sublabels depending on the distance between the main ticks
> (this behavior is identical to the old behavior).
>
> You can now turn off only the log sublabels by adding:
>   *labels log off
>
> Or, both the subticks and the sublabels by adding:
>   *subticks off
>
> So, subticks still controls the default value for the *labels log option.
> But, I think that is fine. I don't want them to be completely independent.
>
> If you have a log scale axis and the subticks are not shown by default, then
> you can add turn on just the subticks by adding:
>   *subticks on
>
> Or, both the subticks and the sublabels by adding:
>   *labels log l25
>
> To summarize, subticks off also turns of the sublabels by default and labels
> log l25/l25b/l1 also turns on the subticks by default. Still, you can get
> all possible combinations by specifying both the two commands.
>
> Could you try the new version and let me know what you think?

I think that now the labels and subticks behavior is logical and
better than it was before. I also did a little testing and everithing
works as expected.

When I was talking about changing the default behavior I meant just
what you did with with the "*labels log off", which previously
defaulted to also switch the subticks off and now it does not; this is
exactly what I prefer but I was not sure that you would change it for
compatibility.

Now, I'm perfectly happy with the new version. The only thing I fail
to see is the difference between "log off" and "log n1": they both
switch off the labels on subticks, keep them on by default and do not
interfere with the *subtick setting. But maybe the difference consists
in a different interaction with dticks, which at the moment I don't
understand very well because I'm relatively new with GLE and I didn't
happen to need it.

Thank you very much for your efforts for improving GLE and listen to
user requests.

Best Wishes,
    Luca