Re: RC2 : Problems with multiplot ... spacing

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

Zitat von "Philipp K. Janert" <ja...@ie...>:
>
> 1) The new (?) "spacing" option is not documented
> at all. I can vaguely guess what it does, but not
> entirely.

There is a small paragraph including an example at the end of the `set  
multiplot` section in the documentation.

The `spacing` option was thought to be used together with the  
`margins` option. The `margins` option sets all outer margins of the  
multiplot area, whereas `spacing` gives the vertical and/or horizontal  
spacing between two plots.

Unfortunatly, the example as given in the documentation:

set multiplot layout 2,2 columnsfirst margins 0.1,0.9,0.1,0.9 spacing 0.1
set ylabel 'ylabel'
plot sin(x)
set xlabel 'xlabel'
plot cos(x)
unset ylabel
unset xlabel
plot sin(2*x)
set xlabel 'xlabel'
plot cos(2*x)
unset multiplot

doesn't work anymore (it used when the patch was checked in). That  
must have been broken.

Also: I'm not sure, if had had thought of using `spacing` without also  
setting `margins` and if this is possible. In any case I'll check if  
using `spacing` alone could work or insert an appropriate error  
message it one of the two options isn't set.


Thanks for testing!

Christoph