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

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

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:13 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 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?

The error message comes from the title.
Remove the title, no error message - the histogram itself has
no problem.

The error message is totally a false alarm, based on checking
the "offset" value of the title string.


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