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#2716 error in gnuplot help regarding cntrparam levels incremental

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Ethan Merritt
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2024-06-17
2024-06-16
Justin Sales
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Just a minor error in the gnuplot help (inside gnuplot): while searching how to add discrete cntrparam levels to a "cntrparam levels incremental" statement, I've come across the 3rd example (searching in "cntrparam examples") in which it's said "9 incremental contours starting at -20, stepping by 5" while the statement "set cntrparam levels -20,5,9" does another thing, namely: contours starting from -20, stepping by 5, up to 9. In fact, there are only 6 contours since a 7th contour would go beyond 9.

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  • Justin Sales

    Justin Sales - 2024-06-16
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-Just a minor error in the gnuplot help (inside gnuplot): while searching how to add discrete cntrparam levels to a <cntrparam levels incremental> statement, I've come across the 3rd example (searching in <cntrparam examples>) in which it's said "9 incremental contours starting at -20, stepping by 5" while the statement, set cntrparam levels -20,5,9 does another thing, namely: contours starting from -20, stepping by 5, up to 9. In fact, there are only 6 contours since a 7th contour would go beyond 9.
+Just a minor error in the gnuplot help (inside gnuplot): while searching how to add discrete cntrparam levels to a "cntrparam levels incremental" statement, I've come across the 3rd example (searching in "cntrparam examples") in which it's said "9 incremental contours starting at -20, stepping by 5" while the statement, set cntrparam levels -20,5,9 does another thing, namely: contours starting from -20, stepping by 5, up to 9. In fact, there are only 6 contours since a 7th contour would go beyond 9.
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  • Justin Sales

    Justin Sales - 2024-06-16
    • Description has changed:

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-Just a minor error in the gnuplot help (inside gnuplot): while searching how to add discrete cntrparam levels to a "cntrparam levels incremental" statement, I've come across the 3rd example (searching in "cntrparam examples") in which it's said "9 incremental contours starting at -20, stepping by 5" while the statement, set cntrparam levels -20,5,9 does another thing, namely: contours starting from -20, stepping by 5, up to 9. In fact, there are only 6 contours since a 7th contour would go beyond 9.
+Just a minor error in the gnuplot help (inside gnuplot): while searching how to add discrete cntrparam levels to a "cntrparam levels incremental" statement, I've come across the 3rd example (searching in "cntrparam examples") in which it's said "9 incremental contours starting at -20, stepping by 5" while the statement "set cntrparam levels -20,5,9" does another thing, namely: contours starting from -20, stepping by 5, up to 9. In fact, there are only 6 contours since a 7th contour would go beyond 9.
     

  • Ethan Merritt

    Ethan Merritt - 2024-06-17

    I can't find this text or example anywhere in the current documentation files. What version of gnuplot, or more specifically which version of the manual, did you find it in?

     

  • Ethan Merritt

    Ethan Merritt - 2024-06-17
    • status: open --> pending-accepted
     

  • Justin Sales

    Justin Sales - 2024-06-17

    gnuplot 5.4 patchlevel 8
    An Interactive Plotting Program
    Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley

    Version 5 organized by Ethan A Merritt and others
    This manual was originally prepared by Dick Crawford

     

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