Re: [Gnuplot-info] stopping labels with decimals

[BBands <bb...@gm...>]

I tend to do a lot of preprocessing, so finding things like yrange
before hand is not hard. Maybe this might help: Could you guess the
proper y increment from the file size?

      jab

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Gareth Walker <g.w...@sh...> wrote:
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> On 15 Jun 2011, at 17:08, BBands wrote:
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>> The ternary operator allows conditional plotting.
>>
>> 'help ternary'
>> 'help plot using'
>>
>> Ethan helped me with a rather elegant example of this that you can see
>> in finance.dem.
>>
>> Why not pass the increment for 'set ytics' in from your bash script?
>
> thanks for this.  I am thinking of ways I can get my script to do this.  The problem that immediately comes to mind there is that I would need to know the yrange maximum in order to calculate the appropriate increment.  But of course the yrange is calculated each time by Gnuplot, not by bash.  But I will keep trying.  I'll also try to make sense of the ternary operators
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Gareth



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