Re: White space balance has changed

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 08 June, 2016 11:07:28 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I've been stepping through the demos, and my general observation from 
> what I remember is that there is now much less white space around plots. 
>   The behavior is the same in two different terminals (x11 and qt). 
> I've gone back to about -D2016-05-25 in the repository to see if this is 
> a current inadvertent change.  It's the same as current development version.

The default margins for "set view map; splot ..." were changed to be
more like those for an equivalent 2D plot.  So that category of plot
is expected to have less white space around it than in old gnuplot
versions.


> Has anyone else noticed this?  Perhaps it was intentional, and in some 
> sense I don't mind it because it makes the plots use more of the 
> available window screen.  I mean, typically when I create a plot for a 
> publication I will reduce the whitespace to minimal because word 
> processors can always add it back in.  That can be done changing the 
> margins or post-gnuplot with some cropping tool specific to, say, eps or 
> something.
> 
> However, as far as the demos, the plots don't feel as though they have a 
> good white space balance for several plots.  Here are some notable ones:

 
> fillcrvs.dem (7) world.dat plotted with filledcurves
> multiplt.dem (1)

I have no explanation for any changes seen in these

> [The above two illustrate how plot are is slightly skewed to the left]
> heatmaps.dem (1) (2) (3) (4)

These are set view map + splot, so changes are expected

> piecewise.dem (1) Piecewise function sampling
> matrix_index.dem (1) Data file contains labeled ascii matrices 
> [annotation off screen]

These demos did not exist prior to version 5, so I'm not sure what
you are comparing to.  The output looks normal when tested here.

	Ethan