Re: autoscale.dem failing, left margin not working

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

On Saturday, March 12, 2011, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I grabbed the most recent version of the SourceForge gnuplot tree via 
> tar-ball. 

From where?
We provide no such tarball.


> It has directory names with "4.5", but upon compiling and 
> running, I see "4.4":
> 
> 	G N U P L O T
> 	Version 4.4 patchlevel 0
> 	last modified March 2010
> 	System: Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686
> 
> Anyway, the autoscale.dem demo is failing:
> 
> gnuplot> load 'autoscale.dem'
> 
> gnuplot> set yrange [*<-5:5<*]

That is a new syntax from 4.5, but it seems you are running some
[perhaps modified] variant of version 4.4

> A second issue is that the left margin no longer works properly.  Try 
> the 'key.dem' demo and it should be apparent.  There are some other 
> demos where the plot edge for the left margin is not computed correctly.

I haven't found any where the left margin of the plot itself is incorrect.
The placement of the key box is non-obvious or incorrect in some of the
examples. Not sure whether this is because it's mis-estimating to left
margin or the font size or what.

	Ethan