Re: Three small bugs with splot

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 01/26/2015 12:50 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 January, 2015 22:38:53 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
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>>  On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:46:11 -0800
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>>  sfeam <sf...@us...> wrote:
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>>  > On Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:57:39 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote:
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>>  > > 3) set ticscale vs set xyplane with save command
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>>  > > The "set ticscale" option is deprecated in favor of
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>>  > > "set xyplane". However, upon "save", gnuplot saves
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>>  > > only a "set ticscale" entry to the command file, not
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>>  > > a "set xyscale" entry. It works, but it is confusing.
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>>  > "set ticscale" controls the length of the axis tic marks.
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>>  > It has no connection to "set xyplane".
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>>  My bad. I meant: "set ticslevel" (not "ticscale").
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>>  "save" does not write "set xyplane" to file,
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>>  it write out "set ticslevel". Which is deprecated.
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> Are you sure?
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> That's not what I see here:
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> gnuplot> set xyplane at z = -.123
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> gnuplot> save 'foo'
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> gnuplot> !grep xyplane foo
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> set xyplane at -0.123
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> gnuplot> !grep ticslevel foo

Same here.  However, "ticslevel" is still saved.  E.g.,

gnuplot> set ticslevel -1
gnuplot> save 'foo'
gnuplot> !grep ticslevel foo
set ticslevel -1

If ticslevel is deprecated, then probably the equivalent "set xyplane 
relative <frac>" should be saved.

I suppose the easiest way to do this is to have a preprocess-type of 
step that replaces "set ticslevel <frac>" by the equivalent.  That way 
the command goes into the history queue with the right format.  Easier 
said than done, I guess, considering that gnuplot has word completion, e.g.,

gnuplot> se ticsl -1

is acceptable.

Dan