Re: White space balance has changed

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

On Wednesday, 08 June, 2016 15:05:16 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 06/08/2016 01:39 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> >> 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.
> 
> I'm seeing the y-axis text right up against the screen edge, and on the 
> right side is three characters of white space.  But, I see that margins 
> are specified in this example.  Note, however, that I'm seeing an error 
> message for the "set multiplot" line:
> 
> gnuplot> load 'matrix_index.dem'
>           "matrix_index.dem", line 29: warning: must give margins and 
> spacing, continue with spacing of 0.05
> Hit return to continue

That warning seems unnecessarily alarming.
All it means is that in the absence of an explicit spacing keyword
it will use the default value.

> If I just remove the "margins etc" option, the warning disappears and 
> the spacing looks good, very balanced.  Should we just remove the 
> margins?  Or keep them in as a way of testing the option?  Here's what 
> looks good for me:

[shrug] Tastes differ.  
I think it looks better with identical left and right margins.
To me the default looks lopsided.

	Ethan