Re: Again: canvas size

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

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 04:34 pm, Robert Hart wrote:
> 
> To be honest, the more I think about it, the less sure I am that multiplot
> is/was a good idea. Surely just as gnuplot isn't a data-processing
> application, it also isn't a page layout program either. Are there any
> uses for multiplot that couldn't be just as easily acheived by montaging
> the plots together in an Image Editor, DTP, LaTeX, or whatever?

Yes, but they are not exactly the ones that multiplot was originally 
designed to produce.

So far as I can see, the thing it is most useful for is to produce
stacked plots. See, for example, the "finance" demo provided by
John Bollinger	
    http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.1/finance.html

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