Re: Suggestions needed for a new command

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 29 September 2005 03:00 am, Robert Hart wrote:
>
> > 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

I also like this idea. As I am always using the DIN style which plots an
arrow parallel to the axis with the axis label. I could provide this style
as an option.

Other names could be:
set plotlayout
set style plot

> > 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.

No, this means too small fonts, no allowance of math in labels, and a
rescale to the default layout when embedding in other documents without
the possibility to change anything.

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

I would prefer 'set style plot' because it really would open the way to
different layouts, as shown in the attachment. The DIN variant 2 is
strange but defined in the standard. I normally use DIN variant 1 which is
hard to get using current gnuplot because you always have to adapt the
position by hand.

Another thing I have always planned but not programmed is to provide the
position of an axis:

set xzeroaxis at 3.5 # in 2D
set xzeroaxis at 3.5,4.2 # in 3D

This would enable users to use zeroaxis also for plots that have a range
which does not include zero and for log-scale plots.

Best regards
Harald

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