Re: RC2 : Problems with multiplot ... spacing

[<pl...@pi...>]

On 11/07/14 16:35, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:55:43 +0100
> Christoph Bersch <us...@be...> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, I saw that paragraph, but it did leave me a
> little in the dark. I guess "spacing" is using the
> same units as "margins"?
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I don't think it has anything to do with the
> concurrent use (or non-use) or "margin".
>
> It is also weird that gnuplot gets itself so
> wedged that even a "reset" does not help - I
> have to quit and restart after every
> "mulitplot ... spacing".
>
> (I really like the feature, otherwise - it solves
> a recurrent problem with multiplot.)
>
> Best,
>
> 		Ph.
>

Yes, this is worth getting working correctly and fully documenting. I 
long ago gave up using multiplot due to the amount of real estate that 
it wasted in handling margins and spacing around graphs.

I've usually ended up doing collation in a graphics processing tool on 
individual gnuplot graphs.

There was a lot of grumbling from Octave devs about this too, who use gp 
as a plotting backend.

Peter.