#2294 Auto range includes zero sometimes

[Rolf]

I can't figure out why this happens, but some of my plots have a yrange that goes all the way to zero even though the data is only between 15-30. I originally tried this on v5.3 and then tried it on v5.5 and got the same results.

I've attached both a input file that reproduces this result and the SVG file that is produced when I run it on my machine.

I'm running "Version 5.5 patchlevel 0 last modified 2020-08-01" (just build from source today) on Linux Mint 20.

[Ethan Merritt]

I am not entirely sure why this happens, but the basic issue is that the "filledcurves" plot style has several variants. You want your data to be treated as a closed curve, which the documentation claims is the default for 2-column data, but for some reason the program is not entirely honoring this. If you change the plot command to:

 plot '-' with filledcurves closed fc rgb "#e3e3e3" fs solid 1 noborder

i.e. add the keyword closed then it will behave as you expected.
Thank you for the bug report.

[Rolf]

Thank you for the suggestion. That does seem to work, but only for the version I've built from source. When I use v5.3 (shipped with my OS), then adding the "closed" doesn't seem to help.