Re: Suggestions needed for a new command

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 03:00 am, Robert Hart wrote:
> you mean a single command that does all of the above? 

Yes.

> Are there other examples? I guess the 2D equivalent?

"set view map" is an example.
That was why I considered extending it to "set view {map} {axes}".

The v4.0 docs say:
 `set pm3d map` is an abbreviation for 
 `set pm3d at b; set view map; set style data pm3d; set style func pm3d`.
 It is used for backwards compatibility, when `set view map` was not available.


> Something like:
> 
> set plotstyle axes
> set plotstyle bordered

That's a possibility.  Although "plotstyle" is likely to be 
misunderstood as referring to dots/points/lines/boxes/etc

> which could be expanded later to include other "popular" styles
> 
> set plotstyle excel

Do I want to know what this looks like?  I hope you don't mean
little pseudo-3D shaded skyscrapers that stand in for simple
vertical lines or rectangles. But yes, I can imagine defining a
number of common settings for the axes, borders, view angle, and so on.


I'm currently leaning in favor of
	set zeroaxis {only}
or	set zeroaxis {noborder}


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