Re: Interesting bug: relative offset + log scale = problem

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Someone on the usenet group reported a problem that boils down to
>   set log y
>   plot newhistogram "title",   <foo>, <baz>, ...
> 
> The result is an error return
>   histogram has y coord of 0; must be above 0 for log scale!
> 
> Now in fact the histogram itself is fine.

How is this fine?  If one of the histogram bins has a value of 0, log(0) is undefined.  Do you mean there is special code to deal with this case?

This error message
> is triggered by attempting to place "title",

By title you mean a title for each individual bin?  The title for the plot should always be layed out according to a linear scale of screen coordinates I would think. 

Dan