In some applications, typically where time extends over long periods and events occur over shorter periods (e.g. a few hours over 24 hours), there are big gaps with no data.
It would be quite interesting to introduce a new directive, shrinking big gaps to discontinuity points.
So i suggest to introduce the directive:
# set xcollapse 3600 10
which tells here that x-ranges greater than 3600 should be visually shrunk to 60, with a discontinuity.
Or just "set xcollapse 3600", meaning that, if x represents time, empty strips extending over an hour shoud be merely removed.
This allow to generate/print/view without scrolling data plots over larger x-values.
Of course, this implies keeping the labels/ticks in phase, which, i guess, is the harder part to implement.
What's your feeling ?
Regards
Phil
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In some applications, typically where time extends over long periods and events occur over shorter periods (e.g. a few hours over 24 hours), there are big gaps with no data.
It would be quite interesting to introduce a new directive, shrinking big gaps to discontinuity points.
So i suggest to introduce the directive:
# set xcollapse 3600 10
which tells here that x-ranges greater than 3600 should be visually shrunk to 60, with a discontinuity.
Or just "set xcollapse 3600", meaning that, if x represents time, empty strips extending over an hour shoud be merely removed.
This allow to generate/print/view without scrolling data plots over larger x-values.
Of course, this implies keeping the labels/ticks in phase, which, i guess, is the harder part to implement.
What's your feeling ?
Regards
Phil