Re: Strange behaviour of "set xtics"

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> But I see yet another bug:
>>
>>     reset; unset tics; splot x
>> 
>> this annulates "ticslevel" in current gnuplot 4.1. 
>
> It's not exactly annulating the ticslevel (as you can see if you 'show tics': 
> it's still 0.5).  But if there's no baseplane being drawn (x and y tics and 
> grids all off), then there's not much use for the extra space controlled by 
> 'set ticslevel', either.  The ticslevel controls the position of something 
> that's not part of this plot, so it can't have any effect.
>
> To see it for yourself, look at graph3d.c:do_3dplot(), line 566.

I considered "unset tics": tics are not drawn, but nothing else changes, so 
neither the base plane. 'help ticslevel' does not write about any 
correlation with '(un)set tics'. But maybe it does not matter...

BTW, in 'help ticslevel' there is:

        set ticslevel <level>
        set xyplane <level>
        set xyplane at <level>

but later 'frac' and 'zvalue' are used instead of <level>. I think it should 
be changed to

        set ticslevel <frac>
        set xyplane <frac>
        set xyplane at <zvalue>

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