corner case?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

Plotting the following wacky dataset (from a test for statistical
programs by Leland Wilkinson)...

obs  y          x

1    99999991   0.99999991
2    99999992   0.99999992
3    99999993   0.99999993
4    99999994   0.99999994
5    99999995   0.99999995
6    99999996   0.99999996
7    99999997   0.99999997
8    99999998   0.99999998
9    99999999   0.99999999

gnuplot does fine, except that it puts "1" for each of 11 x-axis
tics, and "1e+08" for each of 6 y-axis tics, which looks a little
brain-damaged.

The tic marks can, of course, be improved manually, but it's a bit
of a sweat, particularly since the C'ism '#' does not seem to be
recognized in format strings (I mean, as in "%#.8g").

Any thoughts on whether it's worth working on making the tics look
better by default for this sort of case?

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University