Re: Ethans patch of 2005-10-15 (fwd)

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

On Sunday 16 October 2005 03:52 pm, mi...@ph... wrote:
>
> There is yet another need for "size > 1": 3D splot drawings are
> sometimes too small (only "set lmargin" works) and a bit larger plot is
> more optimal for screen terminals.

But this use is yet another illustration that size>1 is not handled
consistently.  

Yes, on screen terminals "set size 1.1,1.1" will increase
the scale of the plot by 10% but will not change the size of the canvas.
Therefore the plot will fill more of the canvas.

But if you do this for the postscript terminal, it will make the 
plot bigger but it will also make the canvas bigger. Therefore the
plot will fill the same fraction of the canvas as before, and will
have just as much whitespace around it.  The only net effect is to
reduce the size of the linewidths and fonts relative to the overall
size of the resulting document.

I can live with the screen-terminal behaviour, so long as we fix
the clipping everywhere so that terminals like pdf/cgm/emf do not
segfault or abort when you are draw off the edge of the canvas.

I know I sound like a broken record 
(or to update the idiom, like xmms/winamp set on "loop track" :-)
when I claim that the postscript behaviour is what needs to be
changed.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742