Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-1218873 ] Change text rotating angle from int to float

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Harald Harders wrote:

> With your argument that I could use an ordinary label I also could say
> that the function timestamp was useless.

It quite possibly might be.  That's what happens if you add generic 
implementations of some features (the sprintf() function) several years 
after other people added some very specifically target special cases 
('set timestamp', my number-printing extension to 'set label').

OTOH, there are still some things that 'set timestamp' does, but a 
similar 'set label' doesn't: it gets space reserved for itself by the 
global layout function, boundary().