Re: Suggestions for 5.0: Margin (and Key)

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Zitat von Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...>:

> On Wednesday, 18 June, 2014 13:01:02 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>>
>>
>> 	set margin top 5
>> and so on. This would (in principle) allow to
>> combine settings:
>> 	set margin left right 5
>> but I am not sure how useful that would be.
>
> Maybe just
> 	set margins [l],[r],[t],[b]
>
> I have wanted that from time to time.

I would also like to see such a compact command for specifying all margins.

>
>> 2) Explicit display of margin value
>> Is there a way to show the actual margin value,
>> when the margin is computed automatically?
>
> You mean in screen coordinates?
>
>     set lmargin at screen GPVAL_TERM_XMIN / GPVAL_TERM_XSIZE
>
> and so on.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work properly for all terminals, see my  
bug report https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1291/

Christoph