Re: Three small bugs with splot

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

On 01/26/2015 01:24 PM, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:50 -0800
> Ethan A Merritt<sf...@us...>  wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, 25 January, 2015 22:38:53 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:46:11 -0800
>>> sfeam<sf...@us...>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:57:39 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 3) set ticscale vs set xyplane with save command
>>>>>
>>>>> The "set ticscale" option is deprecated in favor of
>>>>> "set xyplane". However, upon "save", gnuplot saves
>>>>> only a "set ticscale" entry to the command file, not
>>>>> a "set xyscale" entry. It works, but it is confusing.
>>>>
>>>> "set ticscale" controls the length of the axis tic marks.
>>>> It has no connection to "set xyplane".
>>>
>>> My bad. I meant: "set ticslevel" (not "ticscale").
>>>
>>> "save" does not write "set xyplane" to file,
>>> it write out "set ticslevel". Which is deprecated.
>>
>> Are you sure?
>
> Yes, positive. That's with the gp5.0 release.
>
> set xyplane 10
> plot sin(x)
> save "ticken"
>
> fgrep "ticsl" ticken
> set ticslevel 10
>
> fgrep "xypl" ticken
> (not found)
>
> BUT:
>
> set xyplane at 10
> plot sin(x)
> save "tocken"
>
> fgrep "xypl" tocken
> set xyplane at 10
>
> fgrep "ticsl" tocken
> (not found)
>
> So, in other words, it works with
> 	set xyplane at ...
> but not with
> 	set xyplane ...
>
> Moreover, the default setting is set xyplane ...,
> which means that, by default, gnuplot writes out
> set ticslevel, not set xyplane.

Oh, I see.  gnuplot is treating "xyplane" as if it is the deprecated 
syntax.  That is,

set ticslevel #

is being substituted for non-"at" variation

set xyplane #

when it should be the other way around.

Dan