Re: possible bug in parsing of tics

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

On Monday 19 June 2006 11:58 am, Bastian Maerkisch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried the following tics setting, leaving out <end>. My
> understanding of the docs is that this should be valid, but isn't:
> ---------
> set y2tics 0, 0.05 textcolor lt 3
>                    ^
> expecting comma to separate incr,end

I'm not sure what it is interpreting that command string as,
but I think the command you want is

 set y2tics offset 0, 0.05 textcolor lt 3

The "offset" keyword was not needed in earlier versions of gnuplot,
in the same way that "linetype" was not needed.  But this led to
ambiguous syntax when additional options were added.  So now
(4.1) both "offset" and "linetype" are required if you use any of
the new options.  The old syntax still works so long as you don't
mix in newer options, so old scripts still work.


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