Re: x2tics out mirror bug

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

On Friday 08 December 2006 02:27, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Is this a bug that should be considered to fix before 4.2?
> 
> unset xtics
> set x2tics out mirror
> plot x

> I thought it would be one simple thing.  But it appears to be a couple things.

Yeah, there seems to be a bookkeeping problem.  If you ask for status at
this point you get

gnuplot> show x2tics
xyplane ticslevel is 0.5
        x2-axis tics are OUT,   major ticscale is 1 and minor ticscale is 0.5
        x2-axis tics:   OFF

Huh? OFF?  They are showing in the plot.

Strangely. If you do this sequentially then the problem doesn't occur.
Instead of your 3 commands above, try

unset xtics
set x2tics
set x2tics out
set x2tics out mirror
plot x

That produces the expected plot, and furthermore "show x2tics" now
admits that the tics are not OFF.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742