Re: Change in syntax OK for binary data?

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

On Friday 17 November 2006 01:51 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> So, as a straightforward workaround, I suggest a change in syntax--on
> something that few people have probably used as of yet.  So, anyone
> have any objections of changing the separator from a comma to a
> colon.  That will have an appearance similar to "using 1:2:3", for
> example
>
> splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=30,30,29,26 u 1:2:3
>
> would become
>
> splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=30:30:29:26 u 1:2:3

I would rather bracket the set of specifiers while keeping the commas
 
 splot 'scatter2.bin' binary endian=little record=(30,30,29,26) u 1:2:3

> The colon would now be in several place, e.g.,
>
> splot 'image.foo' binary center=(50,50):(150,50) with rgbimage

I don't understand what that one is supposed to do.

The docs say for 'binary keyword center'
 Similar to `origin`, this keyword will position the array such
 that its center lies at the point given by the tuple.
 For example, `center=(0,0)`.

What is the meaning of the second parenthetical pair in the
above example?


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